The tax reform bills proposed by President Bola Tinubu may have suffered a setback in the House of Representatives after the inability of the Green chamber to push the Bills through the second reading unlike what happened in the Senate.
To this end, for second reading, the House has promised to continue its consultation on the Bills.
The Green chamber at the plenary on Thursday held an executive session which lasted for more than two hours.
But the two hours meeting could not reach a compromise to proceed with the debate on the Bills.
The Deputy Speaker Benjamin Kalu who presided over plenary, at the end of the executive session revealed that they would allow room for further consultations on the bills.
He stated : “What we did was to continue our consultation which we promised the House on the tax bills and the agreement at that session was to continue that conversation.
“This consultation is going to continue from now till Tuesday when we will hold a special session when we will invite these resource persons to be here in the House to engage us.
“Thereafter, we decide which way to go. This is to make sure that it is well documented that we did our consultation in the form of an executive session and we are continuing that consultation till next Tuesday.”
