BIR Central P’gasinan tops collection in Region

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

CALASIAO – After significant pressures exerted to its officials, the biggest revenue district in Region 1 topped its five counterparts in collection of taxes for this month.

According to Revenue District Office-4 Chief Merlyn Vicente the elusive race in the No.1 post was a product of strategy and fruit of a long term program that she and her 15 Examiners and Revenue Collection Officers (RCOs) on the two cities and 13 towns in Central Pangasinan had formulated in the middle of the year.

TOP COLLECTOR – Some personnel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue in Central Pangasinan milled around Revenue District Office-4 Chief Merlyn Vicente. The two cities and 13 towns covered District just received a communication from the BIR Regional Office that it topped the collection given to it last November this year. Aside from Vicente who wears a red clothe in this photo is Assistant RDO-4 Chief Trina Villamil who clasped a bouquet and carried a cake. 

“The product of various projects done instituted by the District likes benchmarking and iyong mga non-payment of EFPS monitoring, audit, enforcements, and others.

She cited that in November this year, RDO-4 collected P460, 444,339.90 versus P409, 257,000 of the tax goal given by the national office.

“It is an increase of P123,092,114.92 if you compared the collection of P337, 362, 224.98 on the same month last year,” she cited the figures provided on the Comparative Monthly Collections for November on the six RDOs in Region 1.

These RDOs can be found in Laoag City, Ilocos Norte; Vigan City, Ilocos Sur; San Fernando City, La Union; Alaminos City, Pangasinan; Urdaneta City, Pangasinan; and here.
The District here is the premium RDO because of its mammoth size compared to its other counterparts in the Ilocos Region.

RDO-4 was given a tax target by the government to collect P4.2 billion for 2017.

Vicente said that in November this year her office collected P3,652,993,178.96 versus the tax goal for the 11 months of P3,681, 779,000.00 or a very minimal deficit of less than 1% or 078% or P28 million.

RDO-4 should have an average monthly collection of P330 million to hit the target in the end of this year.

“Hopefully it will benefit up to the month of December and before the year will close we are still hoping ma wipe-out namin (the collection deficit),” she chuckled when asked if she was confident to hit the goal.

She cited that despite the lack of Examiners that ideally should be 99 individuals, the present 15 and the RCOs continue to work hard until the end of this year to get the more than P4 billion that would fund government projects and personnel.

“Trabaho pa rin huwag magpapabaya,” she quipped.