Hassan said the measures became necessary
because of the fluctuating global oil prices that had resulted in the drastic
drop in Federal Allocation to the state.
Taraba Government said its new Log tax regime
was to increase the state internally generated revenue profile.
Alhaji Hassan Mijinyawa, Chief
Press Secretary (CSP) to Governor, disclosed this in an interview with the News
Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Jalingo on Sunday.
Hassan said with the new tax regime, trucks
conveying a particular variety of log called Madrid would be charged N400,000.
He noted that the Madrid logs which were in
high demand were exported to China and other Asian countries.
Hassan said government was looking inward and
cashing in on large expanse of timber cultivation that was found in many local
government areas of the state.
He said loggers were compelled to replant the
trees to avert extinction, ensure the sustainability of the environment and
control desertification.
Hassan said the measures became necessary
because of the fluctuating global oil prices that had resulted in the drastic
drop in Federal Allocation to the state.
He said the state government was also giving
priority to mining, cocoa and tea production in Sardauna, Gashaka and Kurmi
Local Government Areas to enhanced its internally generated revenue.
``To reduce the activities of illegal miners,
the state government has secured mining deed from the Federal Government which
will enable the state control and coordinate mining activities in the state.’’
Under the arrangement, he said the state
government would go into commercial mining and would enact a law to regulate
mining activities to boost the state revenue profile.
Hassan disclosed that under the former
arrangement illegal miners carried out the activities without approval of the
Federal Government which had the exclusive right.
He said that arrangement deprived both the
federal and the state governments of the maximum revenue derivable from the
resources.
- Pluse
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