Three tires of government- federal states and 774 local government councils received the sum of N616.886 billion as revenue from the federation purse for April.
The amount was approved for sharing by Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC), a statement by Director ( information), Accountant General of Federation Mr. Henshaw Ogubike said.
The distributable statutory revenue for the month of April 2021 was N429.733 billion; distributable revenue from the Value Added Tax (VAT) was N164.340 billion; Excess Bank Charges Recovered was N0.563 billion; Exchange Gain was N2.250 billion. The sum of N20 billion from Non Oil revenue was added as augmentation, bringing the total distributable revenue to N616.886 billion.
In April 2021, the sum of N79.468 billion was the total deductions for cost of collection, statutory transfers and refunds. The balance in the Excess Crude Account (ECA) was $ 72.413 million.
According to the statement, of total distributable revenue of N616.886 billion; federal government received N244.011billion, state governments received N193.432 billion while the sum of N143.298 billion went to local government councils.
The sum of N36.145 billion was shared to the relevant States as 13% derivation revenue.
From the distributable statutory revenue of N429.733 billion; the Federal Government received N207.477 billion, the State Governments received N105.235 billion and the Local Government Councils received N81.132 billion. The sum of N35.890 billion was given to the relevant States as 13% derivation revenue.
The Federal Government received N24.651 billion from the distributable Value Added Tax (VAT) revenue of N164.340 billion. The State Governments received N82.171billion, the Local Government Councils received N57.519 billion.
From the Exchange Gain revenue of N2.250 billion, the Federal Government received N1.051 billion, the State Governments receive N0.533 billion, the Local Government Councils received N0.411 billion and N0.255 billion was given to the relevant States as 13% derivation revenue.
The communiqué confirmed that the Federal Government received N0.296 billion, the State Governments received N0.150 billion, and the Local Government Councils received N0.116 billion available from Excess Bank Charges.
The Federal Government received N10.536 billion, the State Government received N5.344 billion and the Local Government Councils received N4.120 billion from the N20 billion augmentation from Non-Oil revenue.
The statement added that, in the month of April 2021, Petroleum Profit Tax (PPT) and Excise Duty recorded considerable increases while collections for Companies Income Tax (CIT) and Oil and Gas Royalties decreased significantly. Also, Value Added Tax (VAT) and Import Duty took a marginal downturn.
