The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC), shared the sum of N990.189 billion to the three tiers of government, as Federation Allocation for the month of December 2022.
The amount is inclusive of Gross Statutory Revenue, Value Added Tax (VAT), Exchange Gain and Electronic Money Transfer Levies (EMTL).
According to the Communiqué issued by the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC), at the end of the meeting, the total revenue distributable for the current month of December was drawn from Statutory Revenue of N707.756 billion, Value Added Tax (VAT) of N233.277 billion, Exchange Gain of N24.841 billion, and N24.315 billion from Electronic Money Transfer Levies (EMTL), bringing the total distributable for the month to N990.189 billion
The Federal Government received N375.306 billion, the States received N299.557 billion, the Local Government Councils got N221.807 billion, while the Oil producing states received N93.519 billion as Derivation, (13% of Mineral Revenue).
The Communiqué issued by the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC), at the end of the meeting, indicated that the Gross Revenue available from the Value Added Tax (VAT) for December 2022, was N250.512 billion.
From the VAT revenue, N7.215 billion was allocated to NEDC Project and the sum of N10.020 billion to Cost of Collection to FIRS and NCS.
The remaining N233.277 billion was distributed as follows;
- Federal Government got N34.992 billion,
- States received N116.639 billion,
- Local Government Councils got N81.647 billion.
The Gross Statutory Revenue of N1136.183 billion was received for December 2022, higher than the sum received in the previous month.
From this amount, the sum of N31.531 billion was giving to Cost of Collection and a total sum of N396.896 billion to Transfers, Savings and Refunds.
The remaining balance of N707.756 billion was distributed as follows;
- Federal Government was allocated the sum of N325.105 billion,
- States got N165.897 billion,
- LGCs got N127.129 billion, and
- Oil Derivation (13% Mineral Revenue) got N90.625 billion.
The sum of N24.315 billion from the Electronic Money Transfer Levies (EMTL) was distributed as follows
Federal Government received N3.648 billion
States got N12.157 billion,
Local Government Councils received N8.510 billion.
The sum of N24.841 billion from Exchange Gain was as follows:
- Federal Government received N11.562 billion,
- States got N5.864 billion,
- Local Government Councils received N4.521 billion and
- Oil Derivation (13% of Mineral Revenue) got N2.894 billion.
Petroleum Profit Tax (PPT), Companies Income Tax (CIT) and Value Added Tax (VAT) recorded significant increases, while Import Duty decreased considerably. Oil and Gas Royalties and Excise Duty increased marginally.
The Excess Crude Account (ECA) as at January 17th, 2023 stands at $473,754.57.
Ifunanya Ikueze is an Engineer, Safety Professional, Writer, Investor, Entrepreneur and Educator.
