By Kolawole Ojebisi
The federation account allocation committee (FAAC) has announced that it shared N1.42 trillion among the three tiers of government in December 2024, noting that Nigeria’s gross statutory revenue declined by 32 percent.
The committee said the allocation was from a gross total of N2.310 trillion, representing an increase of N300 billion compared to the N1.72 trillion distributed in November.
In a statement at the weekend, the ministry of finance said the FAAC announced the disbursements at its December meeting in Abuja, chaired by Wale Edun, minister of finance and Coordinating minister for the Economy.
The committee said from distributable amount inclusive of gross statutory revenue, value added tax (VAT), electronic money transfer levy (EMTL), and exchange difference (ED), the federal government received N451 billion, the states received N498 billion, local governments got N361 billion, while the oil producing states received N113.477 billion as derivation, (13 percent of mineral revenue).
FAAC added that the sum of N84.7 billion was allocated for the cost of collection, while N801 billion was allocated for transfers, intervention and refunds.
The communique also said the gross revenue available from the VAT for the month of December 2024, was N649.5 billion as against N628.9 billion distributed in the preceding month, resulting in an increase of N20.5 billion.
“From that amount, the sum of N25.982 billion was allocated for the cost of collection and the sum of N18.707 billion given for Transfers, Intervention and Refunds,” FAAC said.
“The remaining sum of N649.561 billion was distributed to the three tiers of government, of which the Federal Government got N90.731 billion, the States received N302.436 billion and Local Government Councils got N211.705 billion.”
The committee said gross statutory revenue of N1.22 billion received in December was lower than the N1.82 billion received in the previous month by N6.98 million or 32.9 percent.
“From the stated amount, the sum of N57.498 billion was allocated for the cost of collection and a total sum of N782.468 for Transfers, Intervention and Refunds,” the committee added.
“The remaining balance of N386.124 billion was distributed as follows to the three tiers of government: Federal Government got the sum of N167.690 billion, States received N85.055 billion, the sum of N65.574 billion was allocated to LGCs and N67.806 billion was given to Derivation Revenue (13% Mineral producing States).”
Also, N31.2 billion from EMTL was distributed to the federal government (N4.6 billion), states (N15.6 billio), and local governments (N10.9 billion), while N1.3 billion was allocated for the cost of collection.
In addition, the communique said N402.7 billion from exchange difference was shared with the federal government (N188 billion), states (N95.4 billion), and local governments (N73.5 billion).
The committee said N45.6 billion was given as 13 percent derivation funds.
FAAC said VAT and EMTL increased significantly, while oil and gas royalty, CET levies, excise duty, import duty, petroleum profit tax (PPT) and companies income tax (CIT) decreased considerably.
