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Journal Article
Implications of national tax policy on local pharmaceutical production in a southwestern state nigeria – qualitative research for the intersection of national pharmaceutical policy on health systems development
2022
Overview
Background
Universal access to quality and affordable medicines is one of the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Access to essential medicines is defined as the availability of medicine at an affordable price in public and private health institutions including retail pharmacies in the proximity of less than an hour from the home of the population. The dependence on importation to meet the drug needs of an expanding population has implications on the growth of the local pharmaceutical industry, availability, and affordability of essential medicines in the country. This study aims to understand the dynamics of tariffs and tax policy on local drug production in the pharmaceutical industry in Nigeria.
Methods
This was a qualitative study involving the use of Key Informant Interviews (KIIs). A total of 15 stakeholders were interviewed. Interviews conducted were analysed thematically. The data generated were analysed using Atlas.Ti version 8.2.
Results
Assessment of the pharmaceutical industry sub-sector underscores myriads of challenges facing the industry and explains why the pharmaceutical industries in Nigeria are performing sub-optimally. Key stakeholders in the sector expressed concern about the fact that substantial percentage of drugs consumed in Nigeria are imported. Local manufacturers are underperforming due to several factors. Some highlighted factors were unfriendly tax environment, high cost of production, infrastructural deficit, low patronage from the government, and lack of access to low-interest rate loans. However, tax incentives and tax cuts are proven strategies to encourage and facilitate the growth of entrepreneurs in the pharmaceutical industry.
Conclusions
Stakeholders’ perspective of implications of the tax environment on the pharmaceutical sector of Nigeria revealed the unfriendliness of the government policy to local manufacturers. Although the checklist for availability and prices of essential medicines in Osun state, Nigeria revealed that the pre-selected drugs were available in the facilities, the observed prices further affirmed the relative difficulty that is experienced by local manufacturers to compete with imported brands of the same drugs.
Publisher
BioMed Central,BioMed Central Ltd,BMC
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