{
  "id": 6143753,
  "title": "Why Nigeria cannot tax its way to a trillion dollar economy",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/07/why-nigeria-cannot-tax-its-way-to-a-trillion-dollar-economy",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-07T12:30:09.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Nairametrics",
    "slug": "nairametrics",
    "url": "https://nairametrics.com/2026/09/07/why-nigeria-cannot-tax-its-way-to-a-trillion-dollar-economy/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Nigeria has set itself a fiscal target, and almost no one disagrees with it. By the government’s own reckoning, the state collected tax worth about ten percent of the size of the economy in 2023, among the lowest shares anywhere, and the plan is to push that towards eighteen percent within a few years, closer […] The post Why Nigeria cannot tax its way to a trillion dollar economy appeared first…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}