INTRODUCTION
Revenue is
the pivot of any economy, it is given priorities in the national budgets
preparation because it is on the revenue available that expenditure is based.
Revenue generation is never an easy task hence the available revenue checks
expenditure at all levels of the economy.
The 1989 constitution states under section
160(9) that “Revenue” means any income or revenue derived by the government of
the federation from any source and includes:
(A).any receipt however described, arising from the
operations of any law
(B).any return however described, arising from or in respect
of any property held by the government of the federation.
(C). any returning way of interest on loans and dividend in
respect of shares or interest held by the government of the federation in any
company or statutory body.
Public
revenue, according to Stephen and Osagie (1985:182) is concerned with the
various ways in which the government raises revenue. Government has different
source it needs for carrying out the various scale functions required of it.
Nigeria
operates a federal system of government with three levels, the Federal, The
states and the local government. The federal is the back bone of the three
tiers of the government why the state and the local government are the centralized
arms of the central government.
Local
government could be defined as the government of the people at the grass root
level. Local government plays direct and active roles in the building up of
Nigeria economy especially now that the local governments are autonomous hence
the researchers have chosen to look into the local government revenue
generation, problems and prospects with particular reference to Nsukka local
government area of Enugu state.
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