FAAC: FG, states, LGs share N675.946bn November revenue

Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed

The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) has shared a total of N675.946 billion November revenue to the Federal Government, States and Local Government Councils.

The Federal Government received N261.441 billion, the State Governments received N210.046 billion while the Local Government Councils received N155.456 billion.

The sum of N49.003 billion was shared to the relevant States as 13% derivation revenue.

The N675.946 billion revenue comprised distributable statutory revenue of N488.674 billion; distributable Value Added Tax (VAT) revenue of N182.678 billion, Exchange Gain of N4.156 billion and Excess Bank Charges Recovered of N0.438 billion.

The total deductions for cost of collection was N30.957 billion and the total deductions for statutory transfers, refunds and savings was N136.908 billion. The balance in the Excess Crude Account (ECA) was $35.365 million.

The distributable statutory revenue of N488.674 billion was available for the month. From this, the Federal Government received N231.863 billion, the State Governments received N117.604 billion and the Local Government Councils received N90.668 billion.

The sum of N48.540 billion was shared to the relevant States as 13% derivation revenue.

In November, the gross revenue available from VAT was N196.175 billion. This was higher than the N166.284 billion available in October by N29.891billion.

The sum of N5.650 billion allocation to NEDC and N7.847 billion cost of collection were deducted from the N196.175 billion gross VAT revenue, resulting in the distributable VAT revenue of N182.678billion.

From the N182.678 billion distributable VAT revenue, the Federal Government received N27.402 billion, the State Governments received N91.339 billion and the Local Government Councils received N63.937 billion.

The Federal Government received N1.946 billion from the total Exchange Gain revenue of N4.156 billion. The State Governments received N0.986 billion, the Local Government Councils received N0.761 billion and N0.463 billion was shared to the relevant States as 13% derivation revenue.

The Federal Government received N0.231billion, the State Governments received N0.117 billion and the Local Government Councils received N0.090 billion from the N0.438 billion Excess Bank Charges Recovered.