Lagos State led Nigeria’s 2022 PAYE tax collections, surpassing the total of 32 other states combined.
PAYE, a tax on employees’ income, saw Lagos contributing 36%, far ahead of Rivers State (11%) and the FCT (∼9%).
This highlights the economic disparity across states.
Over the years, local companies have contributed more than foreign companies to Nigeria’s total company income tax revenue. In 2023, local CIT payments accounted for 51% of the total, with foreign payments at 49%.
Local CIT payments saw the highest share in 2021 (65%), while foreign CIT's highest was in 2015 at 52%.
In 2023, businesses in Nigeria's finance and insurance sector paid ₦458.8 billion as taxes to the government, 119.6% more than in 2022.
Those in the manufacturing sector also increased their payments and remain the top tax-paying sector in the country.
Here are the top five sectors where businesses paid the most tax in 2023.
Nigeria collected nearly ₦5 trillion income tax from companies in 2023. The amount collected in 2023 is 3.5x the collections in 2015 and 73% more than in 2022. Here are Nigeria's company income tax collections since 2015.
Nigeria's VAT revenue has grown every year since 2013, reaching ₦3.6 trillion in 2023. The amount collected in 2023 exceeded 2022’s by ₦1.13 trillion — a 45% increase.
VAT in Nigeria was increased to 7.5% from 5%, effective from January 13, 2020. Though the increase didn’t affect Q1 2020’s figures that much, figures from Q1 2021 exceed Q1 2020’s by 53%. Here’s the total VAT generated for Q1 of the past ten years.
Of the total VAT generated in Q1 2021, Non-Import (foreign) VAT recorded a 116% increase — the highest compared with the same period of 2020. Here is a breakdown of the VAT generated by sectors in Q1 2020 and Q1 2021.
