The Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, Taiwo Oyedele, has clarified that pastors, imams, and other religious workers are liable to pay tax on the salaries they earn from religious institutions.

Speaking on the podcast ‘Mic On’, Oyedele stressed that while churches, mosques, and other religious bodies are exempt from taxation, this exemption does not extend to individuals employed by them.

“So what the law says is that the church and the mosque will not pay tax unless they start doing business as an institution or organisation. But anybody they pay, whether it’s the pastor, whether it’s the choir… because these people are just working, it just happens that they are working in God’s vineyard,” he explained.