Kwara State's Land Charge is a state-level annual property tax under the Kwara State Land Charge Law, 2009 (assented 29 July 2009) — distinct from Lagos's, Ogun's, Oyo's, Kano's, Ondo's, Enugu's, Edo's, Anambra's, Imo's, and Kogi's own state-level property taxes and from Nigeria's federal taxes — charged on land within Kwara State. It's TaxLane's second calculator for the North-Central region, after Kogi.
The charge rate (`M`) and the zone-based land value (`LV`) for Residential/Religion, Commercial/Industrial, and Petroleum properties, plus the Agricultural per-hectare schedule, are all confirmed at government-source confidence, read directly from the Kwara Geographic Information Service (KWGIS)'s own published fee schedule. Unlike every other state LUC calculator in this series, you don't estimate your own land value for those three categories — you pick your zone, and the published figure applies automatically. No minimum or maximum charge, and no early-payment discount, appear anywhere in the Law's text or either fee-schedule document.
Kwara's Law computes the Land Charge as `LC = M × (LA × LV)` — your land area multiplied by a land value per square metre, multiplied by a charge rate — with no building-area or building-value term at all, a genuinely simpler formula than every other state's Land Use Charge calculator. The charge rate and land value both depend on your property category: Residential/Religion (0.12%) and Commercial/Industrial (0.24%) share the same four-zone land-value table, while Petroleum (0.35%) uses its own five-zone table. Agricultural land uses a structurally different per-hectare banded schedule instead, capped at 1,000 hectares. Pick your property category above to see which fields apply, and select any exemption reason that applies to you.
It estimates Kwara State's Land Charge under the Kwara State Land Charge Law, 2009 (assented 29 July 2009) — a state-level annual property tax, distinct from Lagos's, Ogun's, Oyo's, Kano's, Ondo's, Enugu's, Edo's, Anambra's, Imo's, and Kogi's own state-level property taxes and from Nigeria's federal taxes. It's TaxLane's second calculator for the North-Central region, after Kogi.
The Law's own Schedule (Section 5) computes the charge as `LC = M × (LA × LV)` — your land area times a published land value per square metre, times a charge rate — with no building-area or building-value term at all, unlike every other full-estimator state LUC calculator TaxLane covers. Agricultural land uses a structurally different per-hectare banded schedule instead of this formula; see the Agricultural question below.
For Residential/Religion, Commercial/Industrial, and Petroleum properties, Kwara's own Geographic Information Service (KWGIS) publishes a fixed land value per square metre for each zone you pick — Old GRA, Muritala & Taiwo Oke (Major Road), other locations within Ilorin Central LGA, or other Local Government Areas (a separate five-zone table for Petroleum) — so you select your zone instead of entering your own estimate. That's a genuine improvement over every other state LUC calculator in this series, which all require a self-reported land value since no published per-neighbourhood benchmark table exists for them. Agricultural land doesn't use a zone or a published land value at all — see the next question.
Agricultural land doesn't use the `M × (LA × LV)` formula at all — it's a progressive, per-hectare rate schedule, same shape as an income-tax bracket: ₦2,000/hectare for the first 5 hectares, ₦1,500/hectare for the next 15 (up to 20), ₦1,000/hectare for the next 30 (up to 50), ₦500/hectare for the next 50 (up to 100), ₦300/hectare for the next 400 (up to 500), and ₦200/hectare for the next 500 (up to 1,000). TaxLane's confirmed schedule covers holdings up to 1,000 hectares; the source document's own printed figures for larger holdings are internally inconsistent, so this calculator doesn't estimate beyond that cap — contact KWIRS or the Bureau of Lands directly for larger holdings.
Five categories are exempt under Section 7(1): property owned by a religious body and used exclusively for public worship (with a Certificate of Occupancy and town-planning approval); public or government cemeteries and burial grounds; public libraries; palaces of Emirs, Obas, and Chiefs recognized by Government; and any property the Governor specifically exempts by Gazette notice.
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No — for guidance only, not tax advice.
Sourced from the Kwara State Land Charge Law, 2009's own Schedule and KWGIS's own published fee schedule — see full citations →