ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF TAX REVENUE ON THE ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES OF NIGER STATE

Abstract

The relevance of tax revenue cannot be overemphasized especially with the recent declining on the federal allocation and diversion of most revenue to the rehabilitation of Northeast. Both the federal and state governments have been on their stand to diversify revenue bases available to them and attention is now being shift to other sectors and government parastatals that can yield revenue to the government. On this note, Availability and mobilization of revenue is the fundamental factor to which any economy is managed and run. The main objective of this study is to examine the impact of tax revenue on the economic activities of Niger state, employed a logistic regression model to analyze the primary data. The results revealed that tax revenue has a positive and statistical insignificance impact on the economic activities of the Niger state. Tax evasion, tax avoidance, illiterate, corruption, and tax collector habits, had a decline effect on tax revenue in Niger state and statistically significant. However, tax administrator and poor management have a positive effect on tax revenue but the former is statistically insignificant and later statistically significant. Thus, the study concludes that effective and efficient tax policy is a necessary component of an economic policy, for a state to sustain and strengthen its economic activities and compete favorably with the neighboring states. Therefore, recommends, the government to put more effort in revenue since tax revenue serves as a source of funding for government in undertaking infrastructural development. This could be achieved by improving efficiency in tax administration by strengthening, rewarding, modernizing collection and streamlines of tax exemptions.