Lagos Govt To Reverse Land Use Charge To Pre-2018 Rate

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The Lagos State Government will soon unveil a reform that will include the reversal of the Land Use Charge to the pre-2018 rate, the Commissioner for Finance, Dr. Rabiu Olowo, has said.

The Commissioner disclosed this on Wednesday during the 2020 Ministerial Press Briefing to mark the first year in office of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.

Olowo said the state government had to review the increase in Land Use Charge assessment to accommodate the agitations of residents and to reduce the financial pressure on citizens.

He said: “As we are aware in 2018, there was an increase in LUC rate and at the same time a revaluation of properties.

“This twin-shock had a sporadic increase in LUC assessment.

“The soon to be revealed reform will among other things reverse the rate to pre-2018 rate.”

The Commissioner said the intention of the state government was to keep economic activities of the state going.

He said this was without necessarily causing any untold hardship that would further aggravate the present financial hardship confronting all sectors of the state’s economy.

According to him, the pre-2018 charges, which will soon come into effect, will reflect current realities to reduce burden on citizens.

“The reform also considered a flexible Land Use Charge payment and efficient customer service management to ensure prompt issue resolution,” he said.

On procurement process, Olowo said the review was simplified to reduce the bureaucracy in the state procurement process and accommodate small businesses in accordance with the Procurement Law and Guidelines.

He said among initiatives put in place in the last one year in the area of revenue optimisation were the deployment of e-tax platform for tax operations.

Olowo noted that there was also administration matters, automation of operations of Lagos Lottery Board and FORCE (Focus On Revenue Creation Everywhere), among others.

The Commissioner said the state achieved 106 per cent performance in first quarter of the year revenue as against budget.

He said the twin shock of COVID-19 pandemic and dwindling oil price, which had affected the state revenue, necessitated the review of the year’s budget.

He said: “The direct impact of the pandemic is a drop in the state’s IGR and Federal Allocation, which also results in decline of Foreign Direct Investment and increased pressure on income and purchasing power of Lagosians.”

'Dotun Akintomide
'Dotun Akintomide
'Dotun Akintomide's journalism works intersect business, environment, politics and developmental issues. Among a number of local and international publications, his work has appeared in the New York Times. He's a winner of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Award. Currently, the Online Editor at The New Diplomat, Akintomide has produced reports that uniquely spoke to Nigeria's experience on Climate Change issues. When Akintomide is not writing, volunteering or working on a media project, you can find him seeing beautiful sites like the sandy beaches that bedecked the Lagos coastline.

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