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Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Professor Rafiu Oyesola Salawu

Department of Management & Accounting, Faculty of Administration, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife

Managing Editor

Professor Godwin Emmanuel Oyedokun

Department of Management & Accounting, Lead City University, Ibadan, Nigeria

Editorial Board Secretary

Mary-Fidelis Chidoziem Abiahu

Director, Research and Professional Standard, Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria

Editorial Board Members

Professor Chinedum Nathaniel Nwezeaku

Federal University of Technology, Owerri

Professor John Adeoti

Nigeria Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER), Ibadan

Professor Uche Jack-Osimiri

Faculty of Law, River State University, Port Harcourt

Professor Aruwa Suleiman Akwu-Odo Salihu

Nasarawa State University, Keffi Nasarawa State Nigeria

Dr. Eiya Ofiafoh Ofiafoh (Associate Professor)

Department of Accounting, University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria

Dr. Stephen Chukwuemeka Mark Abani

MCSA Worldwide Projects Limited, Abuja, Nigeria

Dr. Kenny Adedapo Soyemi

Department of Accounting, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, Ogun State, Nigeria

Professor Joseph Uchenna Uwaleke

Department of Banking & Finance, Nasarawa State University, Keffi Nasarawa State, Nigeria

Barrister Chukwuemeka Eze

Faculty of Law, Nasarawa State University, Keffi Nasarawa State, Nigeria

Mr. Simon Nwanmaghyi Kato

Federal Inland Revenue Service, Chairman’s Office, Abuja, Nigeria

Issue 2, September 2022

Description

NON-OIL TAX REVENUE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NIGERIA

Authors

Christopher NDU and Leonard C. UGURU

Abstract

The study investigated the impact of non-oil tax revenue on economic growth in Nigeria for the period of 20 years (2001 to 2021). The study employed Value Added Tax (VAT), Company Income Tax (CIT), and Custom and Exercise Duty (CED) as proxies for non-oil tax revenue; while economic growth is measured using Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The study made use of secondary data collected from official publications of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), and National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Analysis of data was done using descriptive statistics; while Ordinary Least Square regression was employed to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The result showed that VAT, CIT, and CED have both positive and statistically significant impacts on economic growth in Nigeria. This result implies that all the variables (VAT, CIT, and CED) adopted as proxies for non-oil tax revenue in this study have jointly contributed to promoting the growth of the Nigerian economy for the period under review. The study, therefore, recommended that government should ensure that revenue generated from VAT, CIT, and CED should be utilized judiciously to develop other sectors of the non-oil revenue such as mining and agriculture to enable her to have a variety of viable sources of income.

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