By Mortz
C. Ortigoza
URDANETA
CITY – The second half of this year would be a bonanza in tax collection for
the three Revenue District Offices of the Bureau of Internal Revenue in
Pangasinan after the new zonal valuation would be implemented.
RDO-6
Chief Maria Isabel B. Utit said the implementation of the valuation would be this coming June.
“Hinde pa
maimplement kasi wala pa publication. This April publication ngayon May or June
implementation niya. Ang naaprove ay RDOs 4, 5 and 6 in Pangasinan,” the
CPA-Lawyer stressed.
BIGWIGS. Bigwigs of the Bureau of Internal Revenue pose for
posterity during their visit to the office of BIR Commissioner Caesar Dulay in
Manila. From left: BIR Eastern Pangasinan Chief Maria Isabel Utit, former BIR
Region-1 Director Marina de Guzman, Current BIR Regional DirectorTeresita M.
Dizon (fifth from left), and BIR Central Pangasinan Chief Merlyn Vicente
(extreme right).
Assistant
RDO-Chief Charmaine dela Torre said the new zonal valuation would be
implemented this coming May 31.
Utit, who
oversees Eastern Pangasinan, said the average increase of the new zonal
valuation would be forty percent compared to the average taxes being collected
in the old valuation.
The
Department of Finance approved the new zonal valuation last April after the BIR
in Pangasinan conducted a hearing to stakeholders late last year.
RDO-4 Chief Merlyn Vicente said the increase in valuation was done
because the government needs more monies to fund its workers and projects.
“This is not to be
used in the collection of RPT (real property taxes), but only sales, donations and
real estate taxes,” Vicente, who administers Central Pangasinan,
stressed.
RDO-5 oversees Western Pangasinan.
Vicente’s Assistant Revenue District Office’ Chief Trina Villamil said the Zonal
Valuation’s hearing last November was attended by members of the technical
committee on property valuation, BIR Region-1 Regional Director Marina C. de
Guzman, Assistant Regional Director Antonio Jonathan G. Jaminolo, the members
of the sub-technical committee, assessors from the 16 local government units
and the provincial government.
“The zonal valuation should be updated every three years as mandated
by the tax code,” Villamil cited.
Before the new appraisal, zonal valuation in Pangasinan was far below
to the assessment of those in Ilocos
Norte Province
A BIR official who asked anonymity asked:”Papayag ba kayong mga taga
Dagupan City na ang highest valuation niyo sa Poblacion Oeste is 35 thousand
pesos (per square meter) lang while sa Laoag City (Ilocos Norte) is 100
thousand pesos na ang pinaka mataas, e mas asensado ang Dagupan kaysa sa
Laoag?”
No comments:
Post a Comment