BIR Region-1 has new two top execs

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

CALASIAO – The Revenue Region No.1 of the Bureau of Internal Revenue based here would have two new top brass this coming Monday.

NEW HONCHO. Incoming Revenue Region No. 1 Director Teresita M. Dizon speaks
last Wednesday before the personnel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue's regional
office in Calasiao, Pangasinan. Dizon in the turned over ceremony photo will
assume the top  post from outgoing Director Marina de Guzman on January 30.
PHOTO: Mortz C. Ortigoza

Mr. Lee Caday, head of the Taxpayers' Assistance Unit, said that Director Teresita M. Dizon and Assistant Regional Director Fely Simon would replace Director Marina de Guzman and Assistant Director Antonio Jonathan G. Jaminola.

Caday cited that Dizon before she assumed her post here comes as Director of Revenue Region No. 2 in Cordillera while Simon, from Bautista, Pangasinan, before she commences her work as the number two top executive of the Revenue Region No. 2 comes from Revenue District Offices in Central Pangasinan and Paco, Metro Manila.

De Guzman and Jaminola would be transferred to Revenue Regions 7 and 9B in Quezon City and San Pablo City, respectively.

Meanwhile, because of the exemplary performance in the collection of the highest taxes in percentage level, the Revenue Region No. 1 Director de Guzman would be transferred to the second biggest BIR regional office in Quezon City.

Director de Guzman said that the six Revenue District Offices’ regional office based here outperformed the other 19 regional offices all over the country in achieving the highest collection of taxes last year.

As a result of this, BIR insider who asked anonymity cited that de Guzman was plucked to Revenue Region No.7 in Metro Manila.

De Guzman disclosed that in the year-on-year basis she spiked the collection of Revenue Region No.1 by 21.82 percent from the 9.7 billion pesos in 2015 versus the 11.9 billion collections in 2016.
“We have an excess of 136 million pesos,” she cited by exceeding the tax goal given to her by the national government.

With a 20 percent increases every year she sees the more or less 145 billion pesos collection last year in Revenue Region No. 7 would become a tax goal of more or less 174 billion pesos at the end of this year.

INCOMING Assistant Regional Director for BIR Region-1
  Fely Simon (extreme left) in a mass at Revenue District Office-6
in Urdaneta City

Revenue Region No. 1 is expected to be given a tax goal of more or less 14 billion pesos for 2017.

The director said one of her strategies to hike the collection last year was to follow the 10 Point Agenda of the Duterte Administration.

“Priorities based on the national office’s previous target. It’s up to you because you know better than you do (your area),” she stressed.