{"id":126008,"date":"2026-03-05T16:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=126008"},"modified":"2026-03-05T16:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:04:12","slug":"company-income-tax-hits-n2-96trn-in-q3-2025-nbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/company-income-tax-hits-n2-96trn-in-q3-2025-nbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Company Income Tax Hits N2.96trn in Q3 2025 &#8211; NBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Daniel Adaji<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Company Income Tax (CIT) revenue rose to N2.96 trillion in the third quarter of 2025, marking a 67.19 per cent increase compared to the same period in 2024, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bureau disclosed this in its latest report released on Wednesday, detailing tax collections for Q3 2025. The figure also represents a 6.55 percent increase quarter-on-quarter from the N2.78 trillion recorded in the second quarter of 2025.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the NBS, foreign companies accounted for the larger share of the revenue, contributing N1.75 trillion, or 59.12 per cent of the total CIT generated during the period. Domestic companies paid N1.21 trillion, representing 40.87 per cent.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On sectoral performance, arts, entertainment and recreation activities recorded the highest quarter-on-quarter growth rate at 41.98 per cent.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Accommodation and food service activities followed with 37.11 per cent, while mining and quarrying posted a 15.36 percent increase.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, some sectors recorded significant declines. Activities of households as employers and undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities for own use dropped by 83.88 per cent. Financial and insurance activities fell by 79.72 per cent, while construction declined by 66.52 per cent.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In terms of overall contribution, manufacturing led with 22.43 percent of total CIT revenue, followed by mining and quarrying at 20.24 per cent, and financial and insurance activities at 17.11 per cent. Activities of households as employers recorded the least share at 0.003 per cent, while water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation activities accounted for 0.04 per cent, and extraterritorial organisations and bodies contributed 0.07 per cent.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daniel Adaji Company Income Tax (CIT) revenue rose to N2.96 trillion in the third quarter of 2025, marking a 67.19 per cent increase compared to the same period in&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Company Income Tax Hits N2.96trn in Q3 2025 - NBS - Pointblank News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/company-income-tax-hits-n2-96trn-in-q3-2025-nbs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Company Income Tax Hits N2.96trn in Q3 2025 - NBS - Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Daniel Adaji Company Income Tax (CIT) revenue rose to N2.96 trillion in the third quarter of 2025, marking a 67.19 per cent increase compared to the same period in&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/company-income-tax-hits-n2-96trn-in-q3-2025-nbs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-03-05T15:04:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/NBS-building-727x375.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"727\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"375\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/company-income-tax-hits-n2-96trn-in-q3-2025-nbs\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/company-income-tax-hits-n2-96trn-in-q3-2025-nbs\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Our Reporter\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\"},\"headline\":\"Company Income Tax Hits N2.96trn in Q3 2025 &#8211; 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