President Jonathan’s Salary Revealed

For presiding over the affairs of Nigeria as
its president in the last three years, you
won’t believe how much President
Goodluck Jonathan has pocketed as salary.
Vanguard reports that in the last three years
President Goodluck Jonathan has pocketed
N43.231 million as salary while he had in the
last three years, paid N6.264 million as
tax to the country.
The years which the president earned the
salary and paid the tax, according to
document from the Federal Inland Revenue
Service, FIRS, he released to the
Independent National Electoral Commission,
INEC, were 2011, 2012 and 2013.
Vanguard also made it known that the
document which was placed at the INEC
office at Area 10, Abuja, showed that the
president, in 2011, 2012 and 2013, received
the said amount.
The document showed that the president’s
salary stands at N14,410,290.48 per annum.
The president also paid a total of
N6,264,221.75 as tax in the years under
review.
The income tax clearance certificate from
the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Abuja,
with Ref. No: ABJ/MDA/PAYE/09690150 and
dated July 2, 2014, revealed that in the
years 2011, 2012 and 2013, he received a
total of N43,230,871.44 as salary.
While he paid N1,242,670.21 as tax in 2011,
President Jonathan paid N2,510,775.77 for
2012 and for 2013.
The document tagged:“To whom it may
concern”, indicated that the president’s
source of income was “employment”.
The clearance which was stamped and
received in the Legal Services Department of
INEC on December 18 2014
reads:
This is to certify that Dr. Jonathan, Ebele
Goodluck (Presidency) has paid income tax
assessment for the past three years.
The details of the president’s tax payment
also showed that the president did not earn
any other income besides his fixed income
as president of the country in that period.
There were no indications of income from
stocks or other businesses that the
president could have had.