Leaño: BIR Eastern P’gasinan’s Top Honcho

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

URDANETA CITY – The top brass of the Bureau of Internal Revenue assigned a new head to supervise the tax collection in the one city and 15 towns Eastern Pangasinan.

According to Regional Head of the Taxpayer Assistance Unit Chief Lee Caday the Revenue Travel Assignment Order (RTAO) showed Revenue District Office Chief Helen Leaño assigned to RDO-6 here after former RDO- 6 Chief Cecilia C. Campos retired from the same post.

Leaño used to be the RDO-1 Chief of Ilocos Norte whose office is based in Laoag City.

EFFICIENT COLLECTOR. Former Revenue District Office 1 Chief Helen Leaño who covered Ilocos Norte shows her plaque of appreciation after RDO -1 was the only office in the six RDOs in Region-1 to surpassed the respective tax goals given by the Bureau of Internal Revenue to them. RDO-1 eclipsed the P1,785,049,000.00 goal by 1.88 percent at the end of 2019. Leaño through the Revenue Travel Assignment Order (RTAO) was recently assigned as the BIR chief of the one city 15 towns eastern Pangasinan. The new BIR top honcho is flanked by BIR Regional Director Thelma S. Milabao and Assistant Regional Director Wrenolph D. Panganiban. (Photo Credit: Marilyn Respicio)

RDO Chief Ramon Navarro of Mangaldan, Pangasinan replaced Leano there.

Susan Cabanayan and Lolita Salayog are the Assistant RDOs of RDOs-1 and 6 respectively.

RDO-6 became No. 2 in the tax collection efficiency for 2019 in the Ilocos Region.

Under former RDO-6 Chief Campos and ARDO-6 Salayog, it collected last year P1,830,370, 823.46 or 16. 22 percent higher versus its 2018 collection.

It fell short however of negative 1.39 percent on the tax goal given by the national office for 2019 where it did not hit its P1, 856,225,000.00 goal unlike in RDO-1 where Leaño came. She exceeded it by 1.88 percent as based on the government mandated goal of P1,785,049,000.10 or an excess of P33, 550,462.44.

The other four RDOs in Ilocos Sur, La Union, Central Pangasinan, and Western Pangasinan have an average collection deficiency of 6.13 percent versus the goal given to them by the BIR national office in Quezon City.

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