The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), generated the sum of N2.11 trillion as revenue from January to July this year – through tax collection.
This is contained in a progress report of the FIRS for the period under review obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday, showing the revenue performance and impact of the new tax regime.
The aggregate revenue projected in the 2017 budget is N4.94 trillion, out of which oil revenue is expected to contribute N1.98 trillion.
This is based on an estimated crude oil production of 2.2 million barrels per day at an exchange rate of N305 to a dollar.
Non-oil revenue for the year is projected at N1.37tn, which represents about 28 per cent of the budgeted revenue.
Independent revenues, various recoveries and mining will account for the balance of about N1.58 trillion.
A breakdown of the report showed that the FIRS collected N720.28 billion as Petroleum Profit Tax from January to July this year, while the Value Added Tax revenue collected in the same period was N548.22 billion.
The Federal Government had also collected the sum of N679.9 billion as Company Income Tax and N91.4 billion as Education Tax in the first seven months of the year.
The report also showed that the consolidated tax revenue for the first seven month of the year was N62.3 billion, which has already superseded the N59.8 billion generated from the area in the entire 2016 financial year.
Also, the service recorded success in boosting its collection of the National Information Technology Development Fund levy, which went from N6.75 billion in 2016 to N9.87 billion in the first seven months of 2017.
A further analysis of the report showed that the FIRS generated more money from taxing the non-oil sector compared to the oil and gas sector.
The report showed that non-oil tax revenue contribution was at 65.9 per cent, while oil and gas contribution to revenue so far was at 34 per cent.
According to the report, the improvement recorded so far is due to the steps taken by the service to increase tax collection.
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