What the hell is a motor vehicle circulation tax? Is it a ‘sin tax’, a ‘nudge tax’, a ‘green tax’ or a ‘carbon tax’? Where has the State derived the constitutional authority to introduce this strange impost on citizens of this country?
On the Finance Bill, 2024, I think we are now at a point where we have to reach out to one of our public-spirited litigation campaigners — the likes of Senator Okiya Omtatah— to file a case in a constitutional court to interrogate and test whether the supreme law gives the State a carte blanche to arbitrarily introduce strange charges on the citizen merely because the government is unable to balance its books.
