Kaduna State has been having progressive Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) accruals since Governor Nasir El-Rufai assumed office in 2015, the Executive Chairman of Kaduna State Inland Revenue Service (KADIRS), Dr Zaid Abubakar has said.
The Executive Chairman who was shedding more light on the recent National Bureau for Statistics (NBS) ranking which placed Kaduna State 6th in IGR nationally in 2019, said that this is the highest IGR collection in the history of the state.
‘’From the statistics, Kaduna state has the highest IGR in the north, apart from the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), having generated N44,956,576,583.38 in 2019,’’ he further said.
Dr Abubakar pointed out that ‘’N11,789,966,177.34 was collected in 2015 but in 2016, the IGR increased to N23,024,006,939.83. The revenue went up to N26,530,566,914.91 in 2017 and increased again to N29,445,840,160.74 in 2018. Last year, we generated N44,956,576,583.38.’’
According to the NBS raking, Lagos and Rivers States, FCT, Ogun and Delta States are ahead of Kaduna State with N398,732,246,493.38, N140,398,744,302.70, N74,564,180,835.31, N70,922, 590,495.89, N64,678,796,991.57 respectively.
The KADIRS boss said that the state had targeted N50 billion as IGR this year before the coming of COVID-19, adding that ‘’we will not relent in our efforts to improve on our NBS ranking.’’
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