FG budgets N20 billion for export expansion grant

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The federal government has budgeted N20 billion in the 2017 budget for the resumption of the controversial Export Expansion Grant (EEG) tax credit scheme.

The controversy surrounding the resumption of the scheme deepened late last year as the House of Representatives urged the minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Okechukwu Enelamah, to halt the resumption of the grant.

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The EEG, before its suspension, accumulated a backlog of over N150 billion, which exporters are still begging the federal government to settle. The inclusion of the grant in the budget indicates that the federal government is poised at resuming the grant this year.

In addition to the grant, the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment also appropriated N71.20 million for export enhancement through purchase of equipment and furniture and N50.63 million for monitoring of crude oil and gas at various export terminals to ensure quantity exported conforms with approval (export permit) and the generation of metrology data.

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