Researchers decry regressive implicit tax as rent inflation escalates

A growing wave of housing rent inflation in Nigeria is increasingly functioning as a “regressive implicit tax” on urban households, eroding real incomes and worsening multidimensional poverty, according to researchers and housing policy experts. The warning was raised by Ayinde Yemisi of Covenant University, Ota, who argued that the rapid escalation in rent prices reflects […]

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