ECA now $72.4m as FG, others share N640bn for January
The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee has shared N640.310 billion to the three tiers of government for January.
Hassan Dodo, the Director of Information, Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, said this was made known in a communique issued at the end of a virtual conference of FAAC on Thursday.
In its communique, the committee explained that the amount shared by the federal government, states, and local government areas included the cost of collection to different agencies involved.
It noted that N640.310 billion shared included cost of collection to Nigeria Customs Service, Department of Petroleum Resources, and the Federal Inland Revenue Service.
The committee also noted that the Federal Government received N226.998 billion, the states received N177.171 billion, and the LGAs got N131.399 billion.
The oil-producing states received N26.777 billion as derivation (13 percent of Mineral Revenue), and Cost of Collection/Transfer and Refunds got N75.966 billion.
According to the communique, the gross revenue available from the value-added tax for January was N157.351 billion.
It stated that this was against N171.358 billion distributed in the preceding month of December 2020, resulting in a decrease of N14.007 billion.
“The distribution is as follows: federal government got N21.950 billion, the states received N73.168 billion, LGAs got N51.218 billion, while Cost of Collection – FIRS and NCS got N11.015 billion.
“The distributed statutory revenue of N482.958 billion received for the month was higher than the N437.256 billion received for the previous month by N45.703 billion.
“From this, the federal government received N205.047 billion, states got N104.003 billion, LGAs got N80.162 billion, Derivation (13 percent Mineral Revenue) got N28.777 billion and Cost of Collection/ Transfer and Refund got N64.951 billion.”
The communique also revealed that companies income tax and oil and gas royalty, VAT, and excise duty recorded marginal to significant decreases.
However, import duty increased only marginally, and petroleum profit tax recorded a considerable increase.
Furthermore, the balance in the Excess Crude Account as of February 18 was $72.412 million.
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