By CHARLES IWUOHA

Enugu State recorded a total of N406,774,321,758.87 Internally General Revenue, IGR, in 2025 out of the N509,947,000,000 projected in the 2025 Appropriation Law, the Chairman of the Enugu State Internal Revenue Service, Mr Emmanuel Nnamani announced on Sunday.

Nnamani disclosed this at the ESIRS office during a press briefing.

He recalled that the total IGR of Enugu State in 2022 was N26.8bn made of tax revenue of N16.2bn and non-tax revenue of N10.6bn.

The ESIRS Chairman disclosed the state was seriously working towards reducing dependence on the Federal Allocation.

He said consequently, upon his appointment in 2023, the IGR was pushed to N37.4bn, made up of N22.9bn tax revenue and N14.5bn non-tax revenue.

“In 2024, we moved the IGR to N180.5b made up of N30bn tax revenue and N150bn non-tax revenue.

“At that point, Enugu State had started thinking differently and dependence on FAAC for every government activity had drastically reduced.

“The shift from tax revenue driven funding had happened as of 2024. Enugu State focused on natural resources and recovery and revival moribund assets to move our revenue into stability,” he said, and announced that the IGR had been scaled up to N406,774,321,758.87 out of the N509,947,000,000 projected in the 2025 Appropriation Law.

This, Nnamdi said, represents a performance of 80 per cent from budget perspective as well as a 125 per cent IGR growth from 2024 figure of N180.5b. It is also a revenue performance that has shown that Enugu State has developed fiscal resilience and sustainability.

“It is important to state clearly that out of this N406.7bn IGR, tax revenue is just N51.5bn representing 12.6 per cent of the total IGR in 2025, while non-tax revenue is N355.2bn, representing 87.4 per cent of the total IGR,” he disclosed.

“Just in 2025, the tax revenue grew from N30bn in 2024 to N51.5bn in 2025, this represents 72 per cent growth year-on-year. It also shows resilience in growth, outperforming tax revenue growth of 31 per cent in 2024.

“This is imperative because tax revenue is most sustaining for any national and subnational government.

This is the reason we have intensified efforts to grow it in line with the provisions of tax laws,” he further stated.

Meanwhile, for 2026, the state government has projected an IGR target of N870bn.

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