Chairman Zacch Adedeji says National Assembly is sole authority on certified law copies
Chairman of the Nigeria Revenue Service (NRS) Zacch Adedeji, has reaffirmed that the tax law currently being implemented by the agency is the only certified version passed by the National Assembly.
Addressing recent controversies over the gazetted tax law, Adedeji emphasized that multiple versions of the law cannot exist, noting that the National Assembly is the sole authority empowered to transmit a certified copy.
“There can never be any other one (tax law). If you follow National Assembly in December, they said this is the certified copy of the law we passed, they printed it, they gave it to me,” Adedeji said.
“They are the only ones that can give it, and the only copy I will have is the law given to me by the National Assembly, which they’ve done publicly. They will not only send it to me, they will read to the house that this is the certified true copy of the law. It was well distributed everywhere, and that is what they sent to us.”
He clarified that the NRS has no basis to gazette or recognise alternative versions of the tax law, describing the debate over gazetting as a non-issue.
“For us, we don’t have basis to gazette different copies of the tax law. There is not even need for it because there can only be one law,” Adedeji added.
“Nobody else will have any other documents, apart from what the National Assembly has done.”
The clarification comes after Abdussamad Dasuki, a member of the House of Representatives from Sokoto, claimed on December 17, 2025, that the gazetted tax laws available to Nigerians differ from those passed by the National Assembly.
Following Dasuki’s statement, the House of Representatives constituted a seven-member committee to investigate the alleged discrepancies.
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