By Mortz C. Ortigoza
CALASIAO - One of the culprits that
caused the tax collection shortfall of the Bureau of Internal
Revenue in Central Pangasinan was the limited number of its personnel.
According to Revenue District Office No. 4 Office Chief Ernesto I. Mangabat, he has only 72 “warm bodies” who soldier on to collect the P4.3 billion tax goal last year.
Among the 72 personnel there are only 22 examiners not including him, Assistant RDO Chief Aldrin Camba and a Chief Collection Officer.
Examiners are those Certified Public Accountant's officials who evaluate how much a taxpayer should pay what they owe the government.
Despite the shortfall of the P190
million to hit the P4.3 billion goal last year, Mangabat exhorted his section
chiefs in a strategic planning to emulate what they had done last year to
collect the new bigger revenue goal this year.
REGIONAL BIG WIGS of the Bureau of
Internal Revenue. From left is Revenue District Office No. 4 Office Chief
Ernesto I. Mangabat and RDO No. 6 Chief Helen Leaño.
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“We
will duplicate that as a matter of fact we extend our thanks you media
practitioner (by this writer exposing tax violators at SM-Dagupan City) kaya
nga sabi ko malaki ang tulong itong ginagawa ninyo. Information dissemination
sa ating mga taxpayers because of their voluntary compliance also,” he said.
He was not required to explain to
Regional Director Thelma S. Milabao why he had a deficit of 4.33 percent.
“From
the collection in 2019 hinde na namin kailangan kasi hinde naman kami lumampas ng
7.5 percent under the Attrition Law we have to explain why you’re not able to
meet your goal by 7.5 percent”.
In the amended Implementing Rules
and Regulations (IRR) of the Republic Act 9335 or the Attrition Act of 2005,
the law says that officials and employees whose revenue collection falls short
of target by at least 7.5 percent would be dismissed from service, while those
who exceed targets would be rewarded.
He said the 4.33 percent short was
tolerable because it was hair thin before the goal of P4.33 billion.
“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 namin iyang Operation
Kandado, tax mapping, mga POS, CRA, reading evaluation ang mga audit part na po
iyan, ” Camba said
Mangabat said there were five Operation Kandado (Operation Closures) he launched last year.
Among the six Revenue District
Offices (RDOs) in Region-1 only BIR’s RDO-1 in Ilocos Norte exceeded its
P1,785, 049, 000.00 goal by 1.88 percent.
The other RDOs in Ilocos Sur, La
Union, Central Pangasinan, Western Pangasinan, and Eastern Pangasinan turned
red.
Meanwhile, a BIR source told this
writer that RDO-6 that covers Eastern Pangasinan had eclipsed its February 2020
tax target.
The one city and 15 towns’ BIR
office is under the tutelage of RDO Chief Helen Leaño and ARDO Chief Lolit Salayog.
Leano was the only RDO Chief that
surpassed last year her target in the six RDOs in Region-1.
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