Sokoto State Assembly Passes Executive Revenue Bill Into Law

The Sokoto State House of Assembly has passed the executive bill to integrate all State revenues into law.

The new law is targeted at generating sufficient revenue for the State.

The Assembly also passed into law a bill to provide for the establishment of a fiscal responsibility agency.

Presenting the report on “A Bill for a law to repeal fiscal responsibility law 2013 and enact a law to provide for the establishment of Fiscal Responsibility Agency,” the Committee Chairman Malami Muhammad, said the committee observed that there is no repeal provision in the bill.

Muhammad representing PDP-Sokoto South II said the second bill was “A bill for a law to integrate, harmonise and consolidate all revenues collected by organs of government.

“This includes all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) in the state in order to generate sufficient revenue for social service and economic growth,” he said.

“That development levy, Sokoto Marshal Agency fines, Hotel licensing fees, Road taxes, local government harmonised taxes to be incorporated in the schedules to the bill.

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“That the schedules to the bill to be rearranged and renamed so as to conform with the provisions of the Bill giving effect to them and the repeal section be reframed to capture only the recovery laws to be repealed,” he added.

The members unanimously accepted the passage of the two bills in a voice vote presided over by the Deputy Speaker, Alhaji Abubakar Magaji.

 

Source: NAN