KPMG Tax Report   When Expertise Speaks and Hesitates: The KPMG Tax Report, International Benchmarks, and Nigeria’s Policy Challenge In serious policy environments, controversy is rarely about analysis alone. It is about what happens after analysis meets power . The episode surrounding KPMG Nigeria’s review of the new tax reform laws is a textbook example. KPMG Nigeria titled its report “Nigeria’s New Tax Laws: Inherent Errors, Inconsistencies, Gaps and Omissions.” Those words were not inserted by journalists or critics—they were chosen, reviewed, and released by the firm itself. The press merely reported what the report said. Yet, when backlash came, KPMG reportedly sought to clarify in Abuja that the report was misconstrued . That moment, not the report, is the real story. Words Are Not Accidental In tax and legal advisory work, language is deliberate. Terms such as errors , gaps , and omissions are technical judgments, not casual descriptors. If KPMG intended to signal ...