By Dipo Olowookere
The sum of N655.17 billion generated in December 2017 as revenue has been shared by the three tiers of government.
The money was given to the Federal, States and Local Governments.
Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, while addressing newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday after the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) said that the N655.17 billion was distributed under four distributable sub-heads.
“The total statutory revenue for the month is N540.44 billion.
“It was made up as follows: NNPC contributed N104.3 billion, DPR, N77.61 billion, FIRS collection from the oil sector is N88.37 billion and N116.9 billion from the non-oil sector.
“We also generated N51.98 billion from the Nigerian Customs Service. There was also a refund of some excess bank charges to the tune of N1.93 billion,” she said.
“There was a deduction of seven per cent cost of collection to the customs, four percent to the FIRS and another four per cent to DPR.
“There was also a provision for FIRS tax refund of N2 billion and another refund by Customs to the tune of N8 billion.
“So the distributable revenue for the month is 655.17 billion, which includes VAT of N83.96 billion and N30.76 billion from the Forex Equalisation Account,” Mrs Adeosun said.
The Minister said oil revenue continued to be impacted negatively due to the continued sabotage of oil pipelines in the Niger-Delta region and the declaration of Force Majeure at Bonny Terminal.
“The decrease in crude oil exports sales by 0.59 million barrels resulted in decreased revenue from export sales of 11.65 million dollars.
“However, the average price of crude oil increased from 52.07 dollars to 56.83 dollars per barrel during the period under review.
“There were also marginal increases in revenues from Petroleum Profit Tax and VAT, while Import Duty and Oil Royalty recorded decreases,” she said.
To this end, Mrs Adeosun said that federal government received N252.5 billion, states, N150.1 billion and the local government, N98.7 billion.
She also said that N47.7 billion was also shared among the oil producing states, representing 13 percent of the oil revenue generated in the month of December and shared in January.
Mrs Adeosun said that the balance in the Excess Crude Account (ECA) still remained $2.31 billion.
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