Friday 20 December 2013

Nigeria's Budget Breakdown 2014

Here is the breakdown of the budget for the fiscal year 2014. We can only hope and pray this budget goes beyond 40% implementation. Remember its an election year.We all know budget presentations are just  political noise.Lets just wait and see if this time would be just different.

Baseline Assumptions
*Benchmark Oil Price: $77.5pb
*Budgeted Oil Production: 2.3883mbpd
*Average Exchange Rate: N160/$, same as in 2013
*Real GDP Growth Rate: 6.75%

Revenue Projections
*Gross Federally Collectible Revenue: N10.88 trillion
*Gross Federally Collectible Oil & Gas Revenue: N7.16 trillion
*Total deductions, including cost of crude oil production, subsidy payments, and domestic gas development is N2.15 trillion, same as in 2013.
*Subsidy payments were maintained at the 2013 level of N971.1 billion.
*Gross Federally Collectible Non-Oil Revenue: N3.29 trillion
*FGN Budget Revenue: N3.73 trillion

Expenditure Projections
*Aggregate Expenditure (Net of SURE-P): N4.642 trillion
*Aggregate Expenditure (Inclusive of SURE-P): N4.910 trillion
*Statutory Transfers: N399.7 billion
*INEC’s expenditure is to increase from the N32 billion provisioned in 2013 to N45 billion. This is to enable the Commission intensify preparations towards the 2014 elections.

*National Assembly’s allocation is to be maintained at the 2013 level of N150 billion.
*The provision for debt service is N712 billionfrom the 2013 level of N591.8 billion.
*Recurrent (non-debt) Spending: N2.43 trillionfrom N2.80 trillion in 2013
*Personnel cost increased slightly from the 2013 amendment Budget provision of N1.718 trillion to N1.723 trillionfor 2014.
*Capital Expenditure: N1.100 trillion
lShare of Capital in total Expenditure: 27.29%down from 31.9% in 2013 reflecting the increased allocation to pension as well as high wage bill
*Share of Recurrent in total Spending: 72.71%
*Provision for SURE-P: N268.37 billion

Fiscal Balance
*Fiscal Deficit: N911.96 billion
*Fiscal Deficit as share of GDP: 1.90
*New Borrowing Requirement: N571 billion, a decrease from N577 billion in 2013

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