President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has directed the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and other financial regulators to intensify monitoring of cryptocurrency and digital payment activities, warning that the rapid migration of Nigerians to non-bank platforms poses risks to the economy.
LinkThe Nigeria government is already scared of the way people are now using cryptocurrencies rather than Banks, is it that they want to stop Nigeria citizens from using crypto because they believe that the more citizens use cryptocurrency for transactions, saving etc the more the Nigeria economy will go down, well I believe that the Nigeria government can use cryptocurrency to help grow there economy so there's no need stopping citizens from using cryptocurrency and they should not make it difficult for people to use.
One of the things I believe Nigerian government wants to achieve when it comes to cryptocurrency is tax, they just want exchange and people using cryptocurrency to always pay there tax, and yeah that is what they should look into and fight for because they can grow the Nigeria economy with that other countries are doing it.
The only reason migration of Nigerians to non-bank like cryptocurrency can poses risks to the economy is when they are not generating tax from it the way they do with Banks, if they can succeed in generating tax from exchange and people using cryptocurrency they won't bother anymore.
Sincerely sometimes i don’t know Tinubu issue🤣 must you tax everything and everyone, he acts at times as if he has one kind of big debts that he is trying to pay back, ever since he assumed office it has been one way or the other of trying to generate money right from removal of fuel subsidy to now high taxing systems up to involving France and also looking for a way now to tax cryptocurrencies.
Well taxation is not a bad thing, i know that why he is particular about cryptocurrency is because he knows the high profit margins involved and what he stands to gain if he can get crypto traders to be paying tax, trust me he will go to any length in ensuring that he gets tax from every trading transaction. My only issue with his this his new economic resolve of taxation is that after taxing the struggling masses it’s not as if the money generated will be used judiciously for useful projects that will benefit the masses, instead he will share that money amongst him and his cabals, the entire money he generated from subsidy where is it? So am certain even if every crypto trader pays tax per transaction he won’t still use it well, taxing crypto transactions won’t be easy though but with the help of France he will archive it with time, he will keep on surveying and probing into crypto activities because he knows what he stands to gain.