Deputy Commissioner for
Operation Arnel Guballa is the primus inter
pares of all the deputy commissioners of the hierarchy of the Bureau of
Internal Revenue based at its national office in Quezon City.
Guballa, a CPA-Lawyer,
is an insider of the agency whose major stints include those at the national
office where he brainchild the Run After Tax Evader (RATE) and became regional
directors in various parts of the country.
His zealousness at the
RATE cost his wife Evelyn death at the
hands of assassins in 2006 probably ordered by unscrupulous big time tax
evaders who want to murder him.
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| Deputy Commissioner for Operation Arnel Guballa (Photo Credit: RDO Chief Maria Isabel B. Utit) |
The interviewer Mortz
Ortigoza of Northern Watch, who met Guballa when he was the director of Region
1, asked him about the series of raids by the BIR, National Bureau of Investigation,
and cigarette producers like Philip Morris Fortune Tobacco Corp. (PMFTC).
The down to earth
deputy commissioner also discussed in this Question and Anwer the P2.3 trillion
tax target given by the Duterte Administration to the tax agency, the BIR
collection performances last year, and the supposedly poor collection of the
BIR regional offices in the country. Excerpts:
MORTZ ORTIGOZA (M.O):
Ang tax target this year ng BIR is P2.3 Trillion. As Deputy Director for Operation malaki ang
papel ninyo diyan?
DEP. COM. ARNEL GUBALLA
(A.G): Yes, ako ang in-charge niyan!
M.O: Are you positive
you can hit the P2.3 Trillion?
A.G: Ahh, we will try
our best to achieve the target.
M.O: Year on Year, malaki
ba ang difference ng collection for 2018 versus 2017?
A.G: Oo, last year namin
our growth so far P180 billion compared iyon sa 2017.
M.O: Iyong tax goal for
2018 naabot ninyo?
A.G: P96 billion
something kami.
M.O: Pero namumrublema
ang mga regional offices kasi exception
sa annual income tax na P250, 000, and those at the contractors’ taxes at sa
Train Law na kinuha na ng national.
A.G: Hindi naman,
nagkaroon naman ng (inaudible) ang mga iyan.
M.O: Binagsak rin ninyo
iyong mga goal nila?
A.G: Oo, saka it’s centralized iyan. Ni uniform division uniform
approach. So mag nag benefit iyong collection.
M.O: Iyong Region 1,
iyong P17, 646,987,000.00 for 2018 nila ginawang P19.855 Billion. Di ba
sir customarily 25 percent iyong spike every year. Walang 25 percent iyong
increase ni compute ko. Ibig sabihin naiintindihan ninyo plight nila?
A.G: Oo, kasi maraming
natangal sa kanila.
M.O: Sir, nag file na
ba sila Philip Morris and other cigarette manufacturers against Sual mayoral
candidate Liseldo “Dong” Calugay, five Chinese nationals, others of CL
Factory in Barangay Portic, Bugallon, Pangasinan sa Regional Trial Court
ng Lingayen, Pangasinan?
A.G: I am not aware of
that. Kasi meron kaming head iyong sa strike team namin.
M.O: Kahit pala kayo
ang signatory ng Mission Order ng raid, you’re not privy on that?
A.G: I am not ano, even
the other media outlets sabi ko I am still waiting for the result of the report
of our team. Hindi ako ang overall.
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