Nigeria made N605 billion distributable income in May: FAAC

FAAC says Nigeria made N605.958 billion as distributable income in May, which was shared among federal, state, and local governments as well as other relevant agencies.

News Agency of Nigeria • June 24, 2021

President Muhammadu Buhari and Nigerian Governors

The Federal Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) says Nigeria made N605.958 billion as distributable income in May, which was shared among federal, state, and local governments as well as other relevant agencies.

This was disclosed on Wednesday by Charles Nwodo, spokesman for the Ministry of Finance, Budget, and National Planning, in a statement in Abuja.

He said the amount was shared during a virtual conference of the committee.

The committee, in a communique, noted that the N605.958 billion shared included the cost of collection to the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), and the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS).

The committee also stated that the federal government received N242.120 billion, N194.195 billion went to the states, while the local council received N143.742 billion.

It added that the oil-producing states received N26.901 billion as derivation (13 per cent of mineral revenue).

According to the committee, the gross revenue available from Value Added Tax (VAT) for May 2021 was N181.078 billion against N176.710 billion distributed in the preceding month of April 2021, an increase of N4.368 billion.

It said, “The distribution is as follows: federal government got N25.260 billion, the states received N84.202 billion, and local government councils got N58.941 billion.

“The distributed statutory revenue of N428.198 billion received for the month was lower than the N497.385 billion received for the previous month by N69.197 billion, from which the federal government received N175.541 billion, states got N89.037 billion, LGs got N69.644 billion, and derivation (13 per cent mineral revenue) got N24.666 billion.”

The committee also revealed that Companies Income Tax (CIT), oil and gas royalties, import and excise duty recorded decreases, and only the VAT increased marginally.

It added that the total revenue distributable for the current month was inclusive of gross statutory revenue of N357.888 billion, VAT of N168.403 billion, solid mineral revenue of N7.940 billion, exchange gain of N1.727 billion, and augmentation from non-oil of N50 billion and N20 billion.

The committee said this brought the total distributable revenue to N605.958 billion.

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