Revenue is a crucial part of every government in office, they serve as a means to provide the citizenry with basic socio-economic needs like healthcare services, security infrastructure etc. sources of these revenue could spring from various areas, in Nigeria, the government sources of revenue includes, Foreign Investments, Taxes, fees, Borrowings et al, while these revenues are applied in the areas of Personnel costs, capital projects, grants and Subventions and so on.
The question we will be handling today was lifted from the just concluded ICAN examination (Nov diet), its focus is on government revenues generation and sharing formula. Below is the question
Like we do, I’ll let you try it out first, then I’ll post the suggested solutions in my subsequent post.
The office of the Accountant-General of Federal Republic of Mazobia presented the following financial data (estimates) concerning the budget of 2017:
N’000’
| |
Federation Account Budget
|
66,955,000
|
Total Value Added Tax collections
|
36,690,000
|
Federal Independent Revenue
|
6,380,000
|
Total Expenditure by the Republic
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52,715,000
|
The revenue accruable to Federal Republic of Mazobia was based on the following revenue sharing formula among the three tiers of government:
%
| |
Federal Government
|
56
|
State Government
|
24
|
Local Government
|
20
|
100
|
The total expenditure of Federal Republic of Mazobia was distributable as follows:
%
| |
Federal Government
|
56
|
State Government
|
24
|
Local Government
|
20
|
100
|
The total expenditure of Federal Republic of Mazobia was distributable as follows:
%
| ||
i
|
Statutory Transfers
|
08
|
ii
|
Debt Services
|
12
|
iii
|
Other Service-Wide vote
|
06
|
iv
|
Capital Expenditure
|
32
|
v
|
Personnel cost
|
34
|
vi
|
Consolidated Revenue Fund(CRF) Pensions
|
03
|
vii
|
Subventions to Parastatals
|
05
|
100
|
Share of Value Added Tax collections are as follows:
%
| |
Federal Republic (as collection costs)
|
15
|
State governments (based on derivation)
|
50
|
Local governments (based on derivation)
|
35
|
100
|
Federal Republic of Mazobia (FRM) share its own portion of Federation account (56%) as follows
%
| |
FRM CRF available for FRM budget
|
48.5
|
Federal Capital Region
|
01.0
|
Share of Derivative & Ecology
|
01.0
|
Statutory Stabilisation
|
01.5
|
Derivative of Natural Resources
|
04.0
|
56.0
|
Based on the available data; you are required to:
a) Calculate the revenue estimates accruable to the Federal Republic of Mazobia from:
I. Federation Account;
II. From Value Added Tax;
III. Total revenue accruable to the Federal Republic of Mazobia
b) Calculate the share of Federation Account allocation to the Federal Government among the various beneficiaries.
c) How much of the Federal Government of Mazobia budget alone will be by deficit financing?
d) Enumerate any five exclusive internally generated revenue payable into the Consolidated Revenue Fund.
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