The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) has released statistics showing that N581.566 billion was shared among the federal, state and local governments in February 2020.
This was contained in a communiqué issued by FAAC after a rescheduled meeting held in Abuja, yesterday.
The N581.566 billion comprised statutory revenue, value added tax (VAT), exchange gain, and revenue from forex equalisation account.
It was announced that the balance in the Excess Crude Account (ECA) stood at $72.221 million. The gross statutory revenue for the month of February 2020 was N466.058 billion.
This was lower than the N525.253 billion received in January 2020 by N59.195 billion. For the month of February 2020, the gross revenue available from the value added tax (VAT) was N99.552 billion as against N104.758 billion in the previous month, resulting in a decrease of N5.206 billion.
Exchange gain yielded total revenue of N0.757 billion, and revenue from Forex Equalization Account was N15.199 billion.
From the total revenue of N581.566 billion, the federal government received N236.118 billion, the state governments received N159.010 billion, and the local government councils received N119.305 billion.
The oil producing states received N45.310 billion as 13 per cent derivation revenue and the revenue generating agencies received N21.822 billion as cost of revenue collection.
A breakdown of the distribution showed that from the gross statutory revenue of N466.058 billion, the federal government received N214.915 billion, the state governments received N109.008 billion and the local government councils received N84.040 billion.
The oil producing states received N43.242 billion as 13 per cent derivation revenue and the revenue generating agencies received N14.853 billion as cost of collection.
From VAT revenue of N99.552 billion, the federal government received N13.888 billion, the state governments received N46.292 billion, the local government councils received N32.404 billion and the revenue generating agencies received N6.969 billion as cost of revenue collection.
The exchange gain revenue was N0.757 billion and the federal government received N0.350 billion, the state governments received N0.178 billion, the local government councils received N 0.137 billion and the oil producing states received N0.092 billion.
