The Federal Government, states and local government councils have shared N682 billion for the month of August, Dr Mahmoud Isa-Dutse, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, has said.
Mr Hassan Dodo, the Director of Information in the ministry, qouted Isa-Dutse as disclosing this in a statement issued at the end of the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) virtual meeting in Abuja on Friday.
Isa-Dutse said that the N682.06 billion shared included cost of collection to Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) and the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS).
According to him, the Federal Government received N272.9 billion, states got N197.65 billion while local government councils had N147.4 billion.
He added that the oil producing states received N30.88 billion as derivation (13 per cent of Mineral Resources) while Cost of Collection/Transfer and Refund was N33.205 billion.
According to the communique issued by the committee, the gross revenue available from the Value Added Tax (VAT) for August was N150.23 billion.
This was against the N132.61 billion distributed in July, resulting in an increase of N17.611 billion.
“The distribution is as follows: Federal Government got N20.957 billion, states received N69.857 billion, Local Government Councils got N48.900 billion, while Cost of Collection/Transfer and Refund was N10.51 billion.
“The distributed statutory revenue of N531.83 billion received for the month was lower than the N543.788 billion received for the previous month by N11.958 billion,” it said.
FG apologises, says self-certification order not for everyone
The Federal Government on Friday, apologised to Nigerians over a tweet on its twitter account on Thursday, which notified the general public that all account holders in financial institutions (banks, insurance companies, etc) were required to obtain, complete and submit self – certification forms to their respective financial institutions.
In the tweet, it said failure to comply would attract sanctions which may include monetary penalty or inability to operate the accounts.
The wide backlash from the message, led the government to clarify that the order was not meant for all Nigerians.
In another tweet, it said, “We apologise for the misleading tweets (now deleted) that went up yesterday, regarding the completion of self-certification forms by reportable persons.
“The message contained in the @firsNigeria notice does not apply to everybody.
“FIRS will issue appropriate clarification shortly.”
The Federal Inland Revenue Service clarified the message in a statement titled ‘Completion of self-certification forms by reportable persons’.
It stated, “This is to notify the general public, especially holders of accounts in financial institutions (commercial banks, merchant banks, discount houses, mortgage or development banks, insurance and life assurance companies, investment advisers, trustees, asset management companies, issuing houses, brokers/dealers e.t.c) that all account holders are required to obtain, complete and submit their respective financial institutions self-certification forms.
“The self-certification forms are required by the relevant financial institutions to carry out due diligence procedures in line with the requirements of the Income Tax (Common Reporting Standard) Regulation 2019.
“The self-certification forms are to be administered by financial institutions in order that the account holders may clearly document their respective jurisdiction of tax residence.
“A person holding accounts in different financial institutions is required to complete and submit the self-certification form to each one of the financial institutions.”
“However, in the case of a person holding multiple accounts in the same financial institution, one self-certification form is sufficient for all the accounts in that same financial institution.”
