DOMESTIC REVENUE MOBILIZATION (DRM) AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: CHALLENGES AND THE WAY FORWARD

Tsatse Terkimbi, Agber Ordughga, Terzungwe Shachia Uli, Teryila Terhemba Douglas

Abstract


Domestic revenue  mobilization (DRM)  is  the  nucleus  and  the  path  to  national  development. DRM encompasses all the money received other than from  issue  of  and  debt,  liquidation  of  investments but includes  tax collections,  charges  and  miscellaneous  revenues,  utility  and  insurance  trust  revenue  for  all funds and agencies of a government Governments at all levels and donor agencies,  both  multilateral  and  bilateral,  have  increasingly  recognized  the  central  role  of  DRM in ensuring sustainability  and  ownership  in  the  development  process,  amongst  others. Domestic revenue mobilization has been considered, as the first element of success in the 21st-century economy. Thus,  this  paper assessed  the  challenges  of  domestic revenue generation also known as internally  generated  revenue  in  Nigeria  and  various  ways  of enhancing internal revenue generation in the states.


Keywords


DRM, National Development, Challenges, Way Forward.

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