Non-Oil Tax Revenue and Infrastructural Development in Nigeria

• Authors: David Jerry Oziegbe , Perpetual Omoyemi Itua

Abstracts

EN

In Nigeria, there has been a decline in oil revenue. This has impacted negatively on infrastructural development. This paper seeks to examine the effect of non-oil revenue as an alternative source of revenue for infrastructural development. The research design of the study was the ex post facto research design. The source of data was the secondary source and a time series of data from 1981 to 2021 was used in carrying out the research. The Autoregressive Distributed Lagged (ARDL) bounds test was used to determine the long-run and short-run relationship between the dependent and independent variables. It was observed that the variables are co-integrated, and as such, a long-run and short-run relationship exists among the explanatory variables. Furthermore, the ARDL short-run estimation result shows that the non-oil tax variables (proxied by VAT, CUSTD, and CIT) have a positive and significant effect on infrastructural development (proxied by total electricity production measured in Gigawatt hours (GWh) in Nigeria. In tandem, the ARDL long-run estimation results reveal that value-added tax, customs duties, and company income tax have a positive and significant impact on infrastructural development in Nigeria. Hence, an increase in the non-oil tax revenue base will boost infrastructural development in Nigeria in the long run. This finding is in tandem with the ARDL short-run estimation result. Therefore, it is inferred that Nigeria can experience infrastructural development when genuine commitment is made to explore an increase in non-oil revenue generation instead of being over-dependent on oil revenue.

Keywords

EN

Autoregressive Distributive Lag; Non-oil Tax Revenue; Infrastructural Development

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych
• Journal: Central European Economic Journal
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 58
• Pages: 200-213

Dates

published

2024

Contributors

author

David Jerry Oziegbe

• Benson Idahosa University

author

Perpetual Omoyemi Itua

• Benson Idahosa University

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/ceej-2024-0014

Biblioteka Nauki

31340672