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The mods need to pin this comment. This is one of the most sensible comments that ive read on nairaland this year.

Racoon:
IGR is not a measure of economic progress. Stop parading ignorance. GDP per capita is the correct measure of economic progress. IGR only shows how the people are taxed. It's a very popular quote that no government can tax itself into prosperity. Heavy taxation is never an economic progress.

Is The Cable a reliable source?

It would also be good to breakdon the sources of each state's IGR.

This is totally not true. Per capita income is dependent on both GDP and population. Your GDP can be growing as a result of the increase in population but your per capita remains the same and you have experienced no economic development. Sadly, this has been the case with Lagos for years.

Mynd44:

As much as this is correct, it is not completely true

The way to grow your Per Capital Income (PCI) is to grow your GDP and this can only be done with funds. The government has to make sustainable developments into the various sectors. The government also has to small and medium scale businesses and attract large scale ones.

How can any government do this? by spending. By building more roads, more rails, more sea access, electricity etc. And this is where IGR comes in.

If a state has an IGR of 10 Billion, how can such a state build infrastructure to develop the economy?

IGR is also a show of how much economic activity is going on as this is why taxes are paid in the first place.

Racoon:
𝐅𝐔𝐋𝐋 𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓: 𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐞 (𝐈𝐆𝐑) 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐
https://x.com/thecableindex/status/1716720864215883917?t=HD6mzOml8PTFxQkwB0HvgQ&s=08

I laff at the developers' region's IGR..

oops....they are busy developing other regions

Ogun: N120.6bn is 6.06bn more than the combined IGR of the whole South East of 114.54bn (1. Anambra: N33.97bn; 2. Enugu: N28.69bn; 3. Abia: N20.11bn; 4. Imo: N19.34bn; 5. Ebonyi: N12.43bn).


Developers...How market


Oya REMOVE Lagos:

SW without Lagos: 257.1bn > SE 114.54bn







Oya Multiply SE IGR by 2 = 114.54 * 2 = 229.08bn

SW without Lagos: 257.1bn is 28.02bn more than Twice of SE IGR 114.54bn * 2 = 229.08bn




OYA remove Lagos and Ogun State:

SW without Lagos & Ogun State: 136.5bn is 21.96bn more than SE 114.54bn

olakraft:
Lagos is a giant in Nigeria's commercial landscape, so I won't even go there. But what surprises me is the performance of the so called "brown roof" states of Ogun and Oyo.

Ogun state alone has a higher IGR than the entire South East and the entire North Central with the exception of FCT.

Oyo has IGR higher than 3 SE states and 4 North Central states.


Keep playing... 😎

Even, my Osun state wey dem dey refer to as poverty capital city of the SW has IGR wey sur 3 out 5 states in the SE.

Racoon:
𝐅𝐔𝐋𝐋 𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓: 𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐞 (𝐈𝐆𝐑) 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐
https://x.com/thecableindex/status/1716720864215883917?t=HD6mzOml8PTFxQkwB0HvgQ&s=08

What happened to NORTH WEST, NORTH EAST?

Una no want open una nyash ba?

CodeTemplar:
Two economies with equal GDPs can have different IGR levels because of disparity in taxation level, Yes or No?

Yes, with a lot of reasons

Southeast always at the bottom. Lol 🤣

Racoon:
IGR is not a measure of economic progress. Stop parading ignorance. GDP per capita is the correct measure of economic progress. IGR only shows how the people are taxed. It's a very popular quote that no government can tax itself into prosperity. Heavy taxation is never an economic progress.

This your comment portrays bitterness and hatred.

Tax system will be effective where people are doing well. At least above average.

Racoon:
IGR is not a measure of economic progress. Stop parading ignorance. GDP per capita is the correct measure of economic progress.

Mumu. No be from generated revenue everything you want talk about dey start unless u no understand anything about economy? What economic progress can you make if your revenue is nothing to write home about?

IGR only shows how the people are taxed. It's a very popular quote that no government can tax itself into prosperity. Heavy taxation is never an economic progress.

Tax in Nigeria? Lol. Who dey Pay tax in Nigeria?

Chijeep:
Oya Agbadorian, una food don land ooo...
Make I motivate una small...
TINUBU IS DOING WELL, TINUBU BUILT LAGOS

[/b]AWA LAAGBA 🕺💃
Soo na with this you wan go build buafra

Racoon:
[b]𝐅𝐔𝐋𝐋 𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓: 𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐞 (𝐈𝐆𝐑) 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐
https://x.com/thecableindex/status/1716720864215883917?t=HD6mzOml8PTFxQkwB0HvgQ&s=08

johnjose68:


I laff at the developers' region's IGR..

oops....they are busy developing other regions

Ogun: N120.6bn is 6.06bn more than the combined IGR of whole South East of 114.54bn (1. Anambra: N33.97bn; 2. Enugu: N28.69bn; 3. Abia: N20.11bn; 4. Imo: N19.34bn; 5. Ebonyi: N12.43bn).


Developers...How market


Oya REMOVE Lagos:

SW without Lagos: 257.1bn > SE 114.54bn







Oya Multiply SE IGR by 2 = 114.54 * 2 = 229.08bn

SW without Lagos: 257.1bn is 28.02bn more than SE 114.54bn

Same Ogun Anambra is beating by GDP?

You should be mad that despite how you people are being milked in tax Ogun has the worst infrastructures in southern Nigeria even your senate President confirmed it last week.


SW you people are mostly employees


And those companies are paying Thier taxes Via by indirect means yes you heard that! Companies leverage increase in salary to paying taxes


SE people on the other hand are self employed
Less taxed and are doing well for themselves

I mean how many persons are being taxed in Onitsha, Aba , Nnewi and Enugu?

IGR is never a way to show economic viability of a region but GDP and HDI

Racoon:
𝐅𝐔𝐋𝐋 𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓: 𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐞 (𝐈𝐆𝐑) 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐
https://x.com/thecableindex/status/1716720864215883917?t=HD6mzOml8PTFxQkwB0HvgQ&s=08

Lagos IGR is very crazy!!!!

Anambra1stSon2:

Money deposit and credit in banks show how economic activity are fairing, some states where indigenous industries dominate tax low unlike states where foreign companies dominate, state like Anambra, Abia are dominated by informal sector unlike Lagos, Rivers, Ogun, FCT and Oyo control by formal sector IGR doesn't measure economy

No matter how much they try to conceal it with words and explanation, that bitterness always find a way to seep out.

damble:
Na north southern states come serve for Nigeria. There own is to be destroying and benefiting from others. What a parasite!

On top how your corrupt politicians dey siphon your money, na north be your problem?

We called it "first attack" in high school. You know what's coming so you rush out in attack before the onslaught starts. It's also a digression tactic

LivingSage:
You're WAILING!
You seem angry

Why
What's wrong?

You feel threatened?

Oh, it's consolation... Pele

Simple

AriyaTV:


This your comment portrays bitterness and hatred.

Tax system will be effective where people are doing well. At least above average.

maasoap:


Even, my Osun state wey dem dey refer to as poverty capital city of the SW has IGR wey sur 3 out 5 states in the SE.

Osun is not a poverty capital lai lai... Osun is far better than Ekiti but all Yoruba states are doing far better compared to other regions.

Oxtertee:
look at the merger amount the kadashians are generating, na only during election their figure dey swell like Ijebu garri.

At least dem dey contribute well for one area

Anambra1stSon2:

Money deposit and credit in banks show how economic activity are fairing, some states where indigenous industries dominate tax low unlike states where foreign companies dominate, state like Anambra, Abia are dominated by informal sector unlike Lagos, Rivers, Ogun, FCT and Oyo control by formal sector IGR doesn't measure economy

indeed it doesn’t but if reverse was the case here and your cursed states were topping the chat the music would have changed. We know you on here already and how deceptive you are, no matter how much you try to twist the narrative we know how unproductive you Erosion lands are and all indices have proven that over and over again

Your state don force them to start writing INFORMAL epistle in self defense

maasoap:


Even, my Osun state wey dem dey refer to as poverty capital city of the SW has IGR wey sur 3 out 5 states in the SE.

Racoon:
IGR is not a measure of economic progress. Stop parading ignorance. GDP per capita is the correct measure of economic progress. IGR only shows how the people are taxed. It's a very popular quote that no government can tax itself into prosperity. Heavy taxation is never an economic progress.

we expect nothing less from developers

LOOOL.

My people perish for lack of knowledge.

On a serious note, high taxation actually reduces growth and income.

How will mama Cynthia generate wealth, improve or expand her business, etc; when she is paying taxes, duties and levies at every corner?

There was an article just last week on big name companies, employing thousands of people, who have left Nigeria. Their number one concern was forex flunctuations, closely followed by high taxation, cost of imports etc.

The high IGR in the States are from companies. Oil companies, multinationals, NGOs, etc. I'm including company taxation and salary taxation.

If anything, all states should be fighting to reduce their taxes. After all, most of this IGR is wasted anyways.

Mynd44:

As much as this is correct, it is not completely true

The way to grow your Per Capital Income (PCI) is to grow your GDP and this can only be done with funds. The government has to make sustainable developments into the various sectors. The government also has to small and medium scale businesses and attract large scale ones.

How can any government do this? by spending. By building more roads, more rails, more sea access, electricity etc. And this is where IGR comes in.

If a state has an IGR of 10 Billion, how can such a state build infrastructure to develop the economy?

IGR is also a show of how much economic activity is going on as this is why taxes are paid in the first place.

Yorubold, come and make your Osun/ Anambra Comparison here.

This is why they allocate so much of the nation budget to the north,north no dey feed anybody.

olakraft:
Lagos is a giant in Nigeria's commercial landscape, so I won't even go there. But what surprises me is the performance of the so called "brown roof" states of Ogun and Oyo.

Ogun state alone has a higher IGR than the entire South East and the entire North Central with the exception of FCT.

Oyo has IGR higher than 3 SE states and 4 North Central states.

Keep playing... 😎

we all know This but our brothers from across the Niger seem to have your own stat that the manufacture from the air in the Ipob region😂😂😂

South East is the poorest zone as they
are outside their zone, claiming other
people's land as no man's land❗️❗️❗️

Southwest states always lead.

Naturally ahead

AntiChristian:
Even poor Ogun state get IGR entire south east!

Chai, where are our Ndi "Nna we develop Lagos" wey no fit develop their region?

You don't have sense.

maasoap:


Even, my Osun state wey dem dey refer to as poverty capital city of the SW has IGR wey sur 3 out 5 states in the SE.

I’ve never heard anybody call osun poverty capital city.

Ebonyi retains that title

The way they fool themselves and assume others are oblivious of the foolery is always hilarious to read. Na oversmart dey do our emotionally-fragile brothers from that side o

SonOfDSoil01:
we all know This but our brothers from across the Niger seem to have your own stat that the manufacture from the air in the Ipob region😂😂😂