By Tony Obiechina, Abuja

The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) has shared a total sum of N902.053 billion November 2022 Federation Account Revenue to the Federal Government, States and Local Government Councils.

This was contained in a communiqué issued at the end FAAC meeting for December and released in Abuja on Thursday night.

The N902.053 billion total distributable revenue comprised distributable statutory revenue of N681.079 billion, distributable Value Added Tax (VAT) revenue of N202.839 billion, Exchange Gain revenue of N7.164 billion and N10.971 billion Electronic Money Transfer Levy (EMTL) revenue.

In November, the total deductions for cost of collection was N40.695 billion and total deductions for transfers, refunds and levies was N232.288 billion. The balance in the Excess Crude Account (ECA) was $473,754.57

The communiqué confirmed that from the total distributable revenue of N902.053 billion; the Federal Government received N358.515 billion, the State Governments received N270.836 billion and the Local Government Councils received N204.130 billion. A total sum of N68.572 billion was shared to the relevant States as 13% derivation revenue.

Gross statutory revenue of N938.618 billion was received for the month of November 2022. This was higher than the sum of N622.270 billion received in the previous month by N316.348 billion.

From the N681.079 billion distributable statutory revenue, the Federal Government received N323.094 billion, the State Governments received N163.878 billion and the Local Government Councils received N126.343 billion. The sum of N67.765 billion was shared to the relevant States as 13% derivation revenue.

For the month of November 2022, the gross revenue available from the Value Added Tax (VAT) was N217.825 billion This was lower than the N229.041 billion available in the month of October 2022 by N11.216 billion.

The Federal Government received N30.426 billion, the State Governments received N101.420 billion and the Local Government Councils received N70.994 billion from the N202.839 billion distributable Value Added Tax (VAT) revenue.

The N7.164 billion Exchange Gain revenue was distributed as follows: the Federal Government received N3.349 billion, the State Governments received N1.699 billion, the Local Government Councils received N1.309 billion and the relevant States received N0.807 billion as 13% derivation revenue.

From the N10.971 billion Electronic Money Transfer Levy (EMTL) revenue, the Federal Government received N1.646 billion, the State Governments received N5.485 billion and the Local Government Councils received N3.840 billion.

According to the Communiqué, in the month of November 2022, Oil and Gas Royalties and Petroleum Profit Tax (PPT) recorded significant increases while Import and Excise Duties increased marginally. However, Value Added Tax (VAT) and Companies Income Tax (CIT) decreased considerably.