TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title page
CHAPTER ONE
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Statement of the research problem
1.3 Objective of the study
1.4 Research question
1.5 Significance of the study
1.6 Scope and Limitations of the Study
1.7 Hypothesis of the Study
1.8 Research methodology and chapterization
1.9 Definition of the Concept
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Function of tax consultants
2.3 The concept of Revenue
2.4 Local Government finance
2.5 Responsibilities of revenue collectors
2.6 Importance of Internal Revenue
2.7 controlling of Local Government Finance
2.8 Types of financial control
2.9 The management of Local Government Finance in Nigeria
CHAPTER THREE
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF AREWA LOCAL GOVERNMENT
3.1 Ethnic Composition
3.2 Geographical Location
3.3 Social Activities
3.4 Economic Activities
3.5 Religious activities
CHAPTER FOUR
DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Presentation and Analysis of data
4.3 Testing hypothesis
4.4 Testing Hypothesis by Using statistical Form
4.5 Summary of the finding
CHAPTER FIVE
5.0 Summary Conclusion, and Recommendation
5.1 Summary
5.2 Conclusion
5.3 Recommendations
Bibliography
CHAPTER ONE
1.1 Introduction
Many African countries have adopted decentralization as the main instrument for transforming the rural areas. The forms adopted range from a high degree of central control to extensive devolution of powers to local government1.
In Nigeria, Local Government has long been recognized as a veritable agent of local service delivery, mobilization of community based human and material resources, and organization of local initiative in responding to a wide variety of local needs and aspirations2. As the tier of government closest to the grass roots local government is in a better position to create wealth for the rural poor through the initiation of various programmes that will increase local incomes and thereby expand local revenue base. For the local government system to continue to be relevant in the scheme of thing in Nigeria, they must evolve strategies for generating revenue base.
Local Governments in Nigeria in their present form started in 1976 “the guidelines for the 1976 local government reforms in Nigeria (1976) is comprehensive and aptly captures the essential features of local governments. According to the guideline.
“Local government is government at the local level exercised through representative council established by law to exercise specific power within defined areas. Those powers should give the council substantial control over
Part of the explanation for the reform are the problems of inadequate funding
to local government, lack of appropriate structure, operational deficiency,
insufficient manpower owing to poor salaries and unattractive condition of
service, corruption, nepotism and politicization of the whole local government
system.
Local government is justified on the ground that it is an efficient agent
for providing services that are local in character. Local government exists to
provide services and it must be judge…by its success in providing services up
to a standard measured by a national inspectorate3”. Because of its closeness to
the grassroots, local government is in the best position to provide certain
services for more efficiently than the federal and state government. Local
government is a veritable instrument for development4.
Local government also serves to promote democracy at the grassroots. This is
the view espoused by the democratic participatory school which argued that
local government functions to bring about democracy and to afford
opportunities for political participation to the citizen as well as to educate and....
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