Lagos State Government will soon reverse the Land Use Charge (LUC) to the pre-2018 rate, Commissioner for Finance, Dr Rabiu Oluwo said .
Olowo disclosed this on Wednesday, during the 2020 Ministerial Press Briefing to mark the first year in office of Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
He said that the state government plans to review the increase in land use charge assessment to accommodate the agitations of residents and to reduce the financial pressure on citizens as it relates to LUC.
”As we are aware in 2018, there was an increase in LUC rate and at the same time a revaluation of properties; this twin-shock had a sporadic increase in LUC assessment.
”The soon to be revealed reform will among other things, reverse the rate to pre-2018 rate,” he said.
The commissioner said that the intention of the state government was to keep economic activities of the state going.
He said that this was without necessarily causing any untold hardship that would further aggravate the present financial hardship confronting all sectors of the state’s economy.
According to him, the pre-2018 charges which will soon come into effect will reflect current realities to reduce burden on citizens.
”The reform also considered a flexible land use charge payment and efficient customer service management to ensure prompt issue resolution,” he said.
On procurement process, Olowo said that the review was simplified to reduce the bureaucracy in the state procurement process and accommodate small businesses in accordance with the Procurement Law and Guidelines.
He said that among initiatives put in place in the last one year in the area of revenue optimisation were the deployment of e-tax platform for tax operations.
