IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/dat/earchi/y2025i1p3-35.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Role Of Taxation In Promoting Sustainable Development In Nigeria

Author

Listed:
  • Ishola Olatunji

    (College of Management and Social Sc., Covenant University)

  • Cordelia Omodero

    (Covenant University Ota)

Abstract

This research examined the nexus between taxation and sustainable development in Nigeria. The study’s specific objectives were to investigate how company income tax, petroleum profit tax, and value added tax would affect sustainable development, measured by per capita income, in Nigeria. Secondary data from 1994 till 2022 and sourced from the annual report of the Nigerian Federal Inland Revenue Services was utilized for the study. The sourced data was estimated using the Vector Error Correction Model. The unit root test showed that all the variables were stationary at first difference and the Johansen Cointegration revealed a long run relationship among the variables. Findings showed that company income tax, petroleum profit tax, and value added tax positively and significantly impact per capita income. The research, therefore, recommended that the government should ensure that tax funds are utilized for infrastructural and economic developmental objectives as it would facilitate Nigeria’s economic development.

Suggested Citation

  • Ishola Olatunji & Cordelia Omodero, 2025. "The Role Of Taxation In Promoting Sustainable Development In Nigeria," Economic Archive, D. A. Tsenov Academy of Economics, Svishtov, Bulgaria, issue 1 Year 20, pages 3-35.
    • Handle: RePEc:dat:earchi:y:2025:i:1:p:3-35
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10610/5171
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    JEL classification:

    • H24 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies
    • H25 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Business Taxes and Subsidies
    • O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:dat:earchi:y:2025:i:1:p:3-35. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Kostadin Bashev (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/tsenobg.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.