{"id":96157,"date":"2026-03-03T20:13:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/?p=96157"},"modified":"2026-03-03T20:13:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:13:23","slug":"nigeria-recorded-%e2%82%a62-28-trillion-vat-in-q3-2025-nbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/?p=96157","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Recorded \u20a62.28 Trillion VAT in Q3 2025 \u2013 NBS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s aggregate Value Added Tax (VAT) revenue stood at \u20a62.28 trillion in Q3 2025, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In its latest report released on Tuesday, the agency stated that the figure represents a 10.66% quarter-on-quarter increase from \u20a62.06 trillion recorded in Q2 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A breakdown of the report shows that local VAT payments dominated with \u20a61.12 trillion, foreign VAT payments contributed \u20a6680.23 billion, while import VAT accounted for \u20a6479.79 billion in Q3 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NBS stated: \u201cValue Added Tax (VAT) in Q3 2025 was \u20a62.28 trillion, showing an increase of 10.66% on a quarter-on-quarter basis from \u20a62.06 trillion in Q2 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local payments stood at \u20a61.12 trillion, foreign VAT payments were \u20a6680.23 billion, while import VAT contributed \u20a6479.79 billion in Q3 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a year-on-year basis, VAT collections in Q3 2025 increased by 28.10% compared to Q3 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a quarter-on-quarter basis, the NBS reported that administrative and support service activities recorded the highest growth rate at 89.28%, followed by arts, entertainment and recreation at 82.49%, and human health and social work activities at 32.40%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conversely, real estate activities recorded the lowest growth rate at \u201351.33%, followed by activities of households as employers, undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities of households for own use at \u201336.22%, and other service activities at \u201320.30%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In terms of sectoral contributions, the top three activities with the largest shares in Q3 2025 were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Manufacturing \u2013 25.89%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Information and communication \u2013 18.77%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mining and quarrying \u2013 14.85%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, activities of households as employers and undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities of households for own use recorded the lowest share at 0.003%, followed by activities of extraterritorial organisations and bodies, and water supply, sewerage, and waste management at 0.03% each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s aggregate Value Added Tax (VAT) revenue stood at \u20a62.28 trillion in Q3 2025, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). In its latest report released on Tuesday, the agency stated that the figure represents a 10.66% quarter-on-quarter increase from \u20a62.06 trillion recorded in Q2 2025. A breakdown of the report shows that local<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":96158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-96157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96159,"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96157\/revisions\/96159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}