The 2020 third quarter earnings, nonetheless, is a decrease of about N100 billion (20 per cent) when compared to the N520.89 billion generated in the third quarter of 2019.
The 2019 figure was higher than that of the third quarter of 2018, N362.7 billion, which was higher than the 2017 third quarter figure of N338.9 billion.
In the report published Thursday, NBS further gave a breakdown of the performance by different sectors and agencies on company income tax, with the ICT sector ranking top.
The report showed that professional services, which includes telecoms, generated the highest amount of CIT with N55.52 billion, closely followed by manufacturing, which generated N42.03 billion.