To hit P4.5 B goal, BIR targets back taxes

     These after arrays of exceptions given by the government to taxpayers

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

CALASIAO – To spike collection, the new assistant chief of the Bureau of Internal Revenue here focuses on the implementation and collection that taxpayers already owed the government for this year’s P4.5 billion tax goal.

Alvin Avelino Camba, 38, cited that after the national office of the BIR based in Quezon City took the contractors' taxes at the Department of Public Works & Highway, the P250,000.00 below exemption of each of the taxpayers to pay income tax if they earn a gross of that amount, and those taxable items at the Train Law- II, his superior RDO-4 Chief Ernesto I. Mangabat and co-workers at the revenue district office have to soldier on to meet the tall orders.

Revenue District Office - 4 Assistant Chief Aldrin Avelino Cambao is flanked by two reporters at his office in the Bureau of Internal Revenue in Calasiao, Pangasinan. Camba, a Baguio City's resident but grew up in Pangasinan, reported at his office last May 2 this year.

“Magpo-fucos kami doon sa enforcement dito sa mga businesses na cover na namin dito. Operation Kandado, hindi lang sa director galing iyan sa mga higher ups sa national office. So iyan po mga pagtutuunan nila para iyan din ang susunod naming iyang Operation Kandado, tax mapping, mga POS, CRA, reading evaluation ang mga audit part na po iyan”.

Camba replaced last May 2 Maria Bernadette Mangaoang as the No. 2 man of the district that supervises two cities and 13 towns in central Pangasinan.
RDO-4 is considered by BIR insiders as the premier office in the six RDOs in Region-1 because of the biggest financial goal given to it by the Manila government.

Although he came from BIR Baguio City as his resident, married, and have two children there, Camba said he came from Bani, Pangasinan.

“I just studied my Bachelor of Science in Accountancy at SLU in Baguio City but I am from Barangay San Vicente at Bani,” he stressed to this writer.

He said his father and mother are Sergio Camba and Nida Avelino.

Camba said his father is a relative of Bani Mayor Gwen Palafox-Yamamoto.