Tarlac BIR Exec Positive to Hit P900-M Goal

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

PANIQUI, Tarlac – The Revenue District Office No. 17-B Chief here of the Bureau of Internal Revenue was positive that she can hurdle the almost P900 million tax goal the government gave her to collect.

RDO Chief Maria Bernadette B. Mangaoang said that the almost P900 million assigned to her will be achievable at the end of this year after she exceeded the January to September collection.

“I am positive we can get the goal because as of January to September we exceeded it by 0.19 %,” she told this writer.

BIR BRASS. After the author's interview with BIR Revenue District Office 17-B Chief Maria Bernadette Mangaoang. He was impressed by Paniqui town, where RDO 17-B is based, Author thought the burgeoning town's commercial center was those located near SM Prime Holdings, Inc. (SMPH) owned Walter Mart along the MacArthur Highway but was suprised that the center was several hundred meters away from the national highway.

Mangaoang said that RDO No. 17-B is a smaller office in terms of jurisdiction and collection target compared to the six revenue district offices in Region -1 where she came from.

She cited that her office has 40 personnel aside from her and out of it she has eight Examiners.

Assistant RDO -4 Chief Aldrin A Camba told recently this writer that RD0-4 that oversees two cities and 13 towns in central Pangasinan has 25 Examiners.  

Before Mangaoang became the top executive here of the BIR she was an Examiner, Chief Collector, and Assistant Revenue District Office in the Ilocos Region especially in the 44 towns four cities’ Pangasinan.

“My office covered 11 towns in Tarlac. Tarlac Province has two RDOs,” she stressed.

When told that this town is progressive just like Lingayen and Mangaldan in Pangasinan, Mangaoang cited that aside from Paniqui the other thriving towns under her watch are Camiling, Sta. Ignacia, Moncada, and Gerona.

The 11 towns are part of the First and Second Congressional Districts of the one city and 17 towns’ Tarlac Province.

The Central Luzon province has three congressional districts.

Mangaoaong became RDO Chief here in May this year. She replaced former RDO-17-B chief Cecilia C. Campos who was assigned at RDO-6 Urdaneta City, Pangasinan.

“Becoming an RDO is also based on performances,” she cited her promotion as Chief RDO here from being an Assistant RDO chief of RDO-No.4 based in Calasiao, Pangasinan.

Mangaoang is a native of Capital town’s Lingayen.

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