Pampanga BIR Lady Chief Soldiers on the P10-B Tax Goal this Year

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga – Almost ten billion pesos (P10, 000.000) of funds needed by the national government to fund its trillions of pesos’ expenses is feasible under the efficient leadership of the new Revenue District Office No. 21-A Chief here.

RDO Chief Charmaine C. dela Torre told Northern Watch Newspaper that based on the customary seventeen percent (17%) increase to the overall collection in the preceding year of 2021, she will have a tax goal this year of P9.5 billion (as of press time she told this writer that it is P9.7 billion).

TAX PAYER. A 3.6-hectare mixed-use community in Angeles City, Pampanga developed by Rockwell Land.

This burgeoning enterprise pay taxes to the Revenue District Office  No. 21-B of the Bureau of Internal Revenue based in San Fernando City, Pampanga.

“Wala pa ang tax goal (2022). More or less 17 % ang increase. P9.5 billion ang magiging goal ko. Kasi P8.1 billion (of last year’s collection) multiplies by 17% more or less P9.5 billion ang magiging goal,” she cited.

Dela Torre is optimistic to hit the huge amount – the second highest among the dozens of RDOs in Central Luzon – because of the positive outcome of her collection in November and December last year and January and February this year.

“I arrived in November. I’ve been hitting our goals for four consecutive months already November, December, January and then February”.

She was ranked No. 1 in the region with the highest collection in November last year.

Of the P6.6 billion last year’s target given to RDO 21-B, it collected P8.1 billion or an increase of P1.5 billion.

“Two months lang sa akin dito,” she quipped by citing her assumption to the huge office in November 3, 2021.

Revenue District Office No. 21-A Chief Charmaine Caday dela Torre

Her performances in January and February 2022 were laudable too where she collected P718 million of the P489 million goal in January and P570 million of the P498 million target in February.

“I think we were be ranked No. 2 (among the 11 RDOs in Pampanga) in February when we exceeded our goal P72 million as of today,” she said about topping on that month when this writer interviewed her early of March this year.

Upon assumption of office here, Dela Torre tasked the 101 personnel where more or less 35 of them are Examiners to revise the Zonal Valuation of the real properties in her jurisdiction.

RDO-21-A cover the towns of Arayat, Magalang, and Porac and the cities of Angeles and Mabalacat.

“At present we have projects in line. We are in the process of revising our zonal valuation. It was last revised in 2018 so every three years there should be a revision. Last December 2018 nag revised na so noong 2021 December nag expand na ng three years. Pagdating ko dito iyon ang tinutukan ko,” Dela Torre, who used to be the RDO Chiefs of Western Pangasinan and La Union Province, said. She is a native of Calasiao, Pangasinan.

She could benefit on the swell of her collection based on the new zonal valuation that will boost the tax rates of the real properties in the towns and cities she supervises.

Dela Torre recalled how she soldiered on the revision of the zonal valuation of RDO-3 in La Union Province in 2018 and rode on the spike of the robust collection of taxes there until her transfer here in November 3, 2022.

Aside from the amended zonal valuation, she compared how burgeoning the economy of this central Luzon province in terms of high paying taxpayers than those in Region-1 where she had a long stint since being an Examiner there.

“Ang industries natin we have telecommunication. Actually we have a very big taxpayer whom I cannot divulge because of the data privacy. Malaki talaga ang contribution noon”.

She cited too how those traders in the Philippines Economic Zone Authority and the thriving businesses under her jurisdiction here help buttress her collection.

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