BIR Eastern P’gasinan Struggles to Collect P2.5B goal

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

URDANETA CITY –Officials of the Revenue District Office No. 6 (RDO-6) of the Bureau of Internal Revenue here have a hard time collecting their P2.5 billion tax goal this year.

The major “culprit” they blamed for this obstacle was the One-Time Transaction (ONETT) that ensued in the recent years.

Head of the Taxpayer Assistance Unit Lee Caday, who is based at the BIR regional office, explained to this newspaper that the huge collection chalked up by then RDO-6 chiefs Beverly S. Milo and Maribel Utit became a bane to the current RDO-6 chief Cecilia C. Campos and Assistant RDO-6 chief Lolita A. Salayog.

Revenue District Office No. 6 Chief Cecilia Campos 

“During the time of RDO-6 chiefs Milo and Utit, the TPLEX was constructed in the district and the operator bought lands of the farmers there through expropriation. A lot of taxes went to the RDO there where BIR main office in Quezon City based its tax goal by exceeding it for the present officials to collect,” Caday stressed on the Tarlac-Pangasinan- La Union Express Way.

He said it was a tall order for the brass here that oversees a city and 15 towns in eastern Pangasinan.

Caday explained that these taxes collected during the stints of Milo and Utit were One-Time Transaction (ONETT).

“Transaciton ng lupa pag nagbentahan and transact sa BIR tapos na iyan. Pag binayaran Capital Gain Tax, pag binayaran  ang document stamp. That’s the only time that we pay unless na paulit-ulit which is seldom like sa mga subdivisions,” he cited.

He said that unlike in businesses where income tax is regularly collected, sale on land is a onetime affair concerning taxation.

The goal last year for RDO-6 was P1, 563, 611,539.77. With the present tax target of P2, 457, 954,000.00, Campos and Salayog have to aggressively shake their examiners and collectors to comb the district to collect P894, 342,460.23 or 52.20% more on top of the last year’s collection.