The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, Anastasia Nwaobia, on Tuesday said N422.6 billion was shared among the federal, states and local governments as revenue for August, 2015.
Nwaobia announced this in Abuja when she addressed newsmen on the outcome of the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee meeting.
She said the shared amount comprised the month’s net statutory revenue of N369.1 billion.
She added: “Also, there is the exchange gain of N4.9 billion, which is proposed for distribution.
“Therefore the total revenue distributable for the month of August, including VAT of N62.1 billion, is N442.6 billion.”
Nwaobia said N6.3 billion was refunded to the federation by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and was also proposed for sharing.
The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that N511.7 billion was shared to the three tiers of government as revenue for the preceding month, which shows a shortfall of N69.1 billion.
Giving the breakdown of revenue among the three tiers of government, Nwaobia said the Federal Government received N168.6 billion, representing 52.68 per cent, while states received N85.5 billion, representing 26.72 per cent.
The local governments, she said, received N65 billion, amounting to 20.60 per cent of the amount distributed.
Nwaobia announced that N27.8 billion, representing 13 per cent derivation revenue, was shared among the oil producing states.
On VAT, she said the N62.1 billion collected for the month showed a decrease of N12.7 billion from what was collected in the preceding month.
She said the country generated N215.9 billion as mineral revenue and N153.1 billion as non-mineral revenue.
She said this showed a decrease of N12.8 billion and N51.5 billion respectively from what the country generated as mineral and non-mineral revenue in the preceding month.
She put the balance in the Excess Crude Account as at today at $2.25 billion, which showed that noting had been removed or added to it since July.
Nwaobia lamented over the low revenue generation for the month, while explaining certain reasons for it.
She said: “”The Shut down and Shut-in of production for maintenance at different times and terminals during the month of July were the major issues that negatively impacted crude oil revenue.
“Also, there was revenue loss of $8.6 million as a result of drop in average price if crude oil from $61.2 per barrel to $56.7 in July, 2015.”
In other matters, Nwaobia said N12.5 billion was refunded to the Federal Inland Revenue Service because they were over deducted.
NAN.
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