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The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has dismissed reports of its inability to properly account for the five per cent Ticket Sales Charge (TSC) and charges on cargo.
The agency through its spokesman, Sam Adurogboye in a statement said the report should be discountenanced, adding that there is no disparity in the figures and data collection with that of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), explaining that in addition, five per cent TSC is not based on the total tickets sold but on flown tickets.
He further stated that on the other hand, FAAN computes its Passenger Service Charge (PSC) on all categories of passengers flying through the airport.
His words, “5% TSC applies to all tickets originating from Nigeria with the exclusion of Diplomats, Tickets sold offshore, infants tickets and staff tickets. These are all classified as non-taxable tickets. Please note that tickets sold by National Association of Nigeria Travel Agencies (NANTA) and airlines do not translate to taxable tickets until it is utilised by the passenger”.
He denied that the authority engaged the services of consultants to collect its revenue on its behalf, reiterating that payments have since been automated while the processing and data analysis for both international and domestic airlines are handled by NCAA staff.
“The Automation process is a transparent system that obtains billable data directly from the reservation system of the airlines. On the international route, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) is responsible for billing and collection of revenue which is remitted into NCAA TSA account”.
The agency’s reaction is coming amid allegations of lack of accountability levelled against the aviation regulatory agency by former Commandant, Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, Group Captain John Ojikutu (Rtd).
Ojikutu urged the Federal Government to probe the five per cent earnings on TSC and charges on cargo. He said unfortunately, the manner the recordings of the earnings from these statutory charges had been handled by the NCAA and its consultants in the last 10 years and still being handled today is very unsatisfactory.
He stated that nobody, not even the National Assembly in its oversight responsibility of the sector, cared to know the gross and net earnings from the statutory charges and the losses too through manipulation of figures; all of which run into billions of naira every year.
He disclosed that the other four aviation agencies like the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB), Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT) and Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET) that share the earnings from the charges in the ratio of 23%, 3%, 7%, 9% respectively, appeared to be complacent and contented with whatever is given to them by the NCAA whose share is 58%.
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