New BIR Top Execs for P’sinan Assume Post

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

Two new chiefs of the Bureau of Internal have formally assumed their respective post last Wednesday in Pangasinan.

Revenue District Offices No. 4 and 6 Chiefs Aldrin Camba and Eden R. Serafica have been assigned to central and eastern Pangasinan to help collect the P2.438 trillion national target given to the BIR by the national government.

The tax agency contributes about two-thirds of its annual collection to the national government's coffer.

NEW TAX HONCHOS of Pangasinan. Revenue District Office No. 4 (central Pangasinan) A. Camba (left photo) and RDO No. 6 (eastern Pangasinan) Chief Eden R. Serafica.

The duo and other RDO chiefs all over the country face a tall order from BIR Commissioner Lilia C. Guillermo who exhorted them at a meeting held recently in Baguio City that she wanted each of them to eclipse by twenty-percent their respective tax goal after the end of year 2022.

Camba, for instance, gears to change the negative collection left by his predecessor from January to October this year.

“January to October cumulative goal (actual collection against the goal): Negative two percent. Year to year (comparison of collections in years 2021 to 2022): Negative three percent,” he told this writer the present state of his post.

The forty years old Camba is optimistic however to have a surplus collection on the P4.9 billion target tasked for RDO-4 that covers the two cities and fourteen towns in central Pangasinan.

RDO-4 based in Calasiao, Pangasinan is the BIR's premier collection office as it has the highest tax target in all the RDOs in Northern Luzon. 

“Ang thrust ko maging positive lahat. Ma- achieve o ma over ko lang ang goal”.

To attain this endeavor, Camba subscribes to monitoring, continuous seminars for his staff and taxpayers, tax information campaign, and tax education as his strategies.

“I appeal to taxpayers to do their part in helping the country in a simple way to do their patriotic duty which is to pay their taxes,” he told Northern Watch Newspaper.

Camba and Serafica replaced RDO Chiefs Gil Vinluan and Bernadette Mangaoang, respectively.

Vinluan and Mangaoang have been assigned to La Trinidad, Benguet and Tabuk City, Kalinga Apayao, respectively.

Camba and Serafica's previous assignments were in Abra and Kalinga Apayao.

Serafica used to be an Examiner and Group Supervisor in RDO No.4 in Calasiao and Chief Area Supervisor in RDO No. 1 in Laoag City, Ilocos Norte, became an Assistant RDO and RDO Chiefs of RDO No. 10 in Bontoc, Mt. Province.

Both are natives of Pangasinan.