BIR Reduces Collection Goal After COVID-19 Ruined Original Target

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

CALASIAO, Pangasinan – Even the tax goal of the Bureau of Internal Revenue in Region 1 had been reduced after the pandemic Corona Virus Disease-19 wrought havoc to its original collection target based on the first semester this year and the same period last year.

Regional Head of the Taxpayer Assistance Unit Chief Lee Caday cited that the collection from January to June this year was P6,050, 024, 399.38.

“Nangyari binabaan ang goal namin after the pandemic. During pandemic may consultation for adjustment. Binabaan ang goal,” Caday told this writer.

The regional tax office here that supervises six revenue district offices (RDOs) in the four provinces’ region had P6,775,282,493.62 collection in the same period in 2019.

The decrease was P725,258, 094.24 or 10.70%.

The goal last year of the BIR -Region 1 was P19.8 billion and it reduced goal this year will be P14.4 billion.

BIR BIG WIGS of Region – 1. From left (upper clockwise) Bureau of Internal Revenue Director Thelma S. Milabao, La Union Province Revenue District Office No. 3 Chief Charmaine Caday dela Torre; Regional Head of the Taxpayer Assistance Unit Chief Lee Caday, and; Eastern Pangasinan RDO No. 6 Chief Helen Leano.

Prior to the rampage of the COVID-19 it had a tax target for this year of more than P20 billion.

“More collection entered the coffer because the taxpayer who could not pay their taxes in April had been given to pay up to June this year,” Caday said.

Top collectors of the P6, 050, 024, 399.38 in the First Semester this year, from highest to the lowest, are:

 1) RDO-3 that covers La Union province with a collection of P1, 278, 446, 584.66. It is under the tutelage of RDO-3 Chief Charmaine D. dela Torre; 

2) RDO-2 that supervises Ilocos Sur with a collection of P893, 596, 662. 01;

 3) RDO-1 that covers Ilocos Norte province with a collection of P814, 568, 963.63; 

4) RDO-6 that supervises Eastern Pangasinan with a collection of P785, 817, 582.15. It is under the guardianship of RDO No. 6 Chief Helen Leano; 

5) RDO-4 that covers Central Pangasinan with a collection of P1,760, 046, 849.08 and; 

6) RDO-5 that supervises Western Pangasinan with a collection of P515, 547, 757.85.