Camba Unfazed on the Loss of 6 Big Taxpayers

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

CALASIAO, Pangasinan – The top honcho of the biggest office of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) in Region-1 was undaunted upon learning that six of his biggest taxpayers have been taken by the Large Taxpayers Services (LTS) in Manila.

“Hindi ho refilling iku-compute naman nila iyon. Babaguhin kung ano ang nawala. Iyon naman ang idadagdag sa napuntahan,” explained by Revenue District Office No. 4 Chief Aldrin A. Camba about his reduced tax collection this year that he expects could lessen too his tax goal.

RDO Chief No. 4 Aldrin A. Camba

In last year’s collection RDO No. 4 collected P4, 938, 419, 711.56.

Camba told Northern Watch Newspaper that Regional Director Josephine S. Virtucio told him and the other five RDO Chiefs in Region-1 that there is a probability that their collection last year would be added by more or less 15 percent for their tax target this year.

If the new spike would be added to the almost P5 billion collection last year of RDO No. 4, Camba will have a yeoman’s job to hit P5, 679, 182, 668.29 at the end of this year.

“Ang tax goal saan natin kukunin iyan. Ipit na ipit tayo doon,” he said about the loss of the six big taxpayers in connection to the tax target this year.

Camba said all of the six big taxpayers in Central Pangasinan (composed of two cities and fourteen towns he administers) are located in Dagupan City.

Meanwhile, the young executive cited that taxpayers who used to pay their monthly value added tax (VAT) would be paying their dues to the government every quarter.

He said that many taxpayers would be surprised about their bill since they would be paying once in three months instead of the old practice of once a month.

“Parang sa tingin ko dito mahihirapan iyong mga negosyante. Kasi naipon ng tatlong buwan na babayaran nila. So iyon ilabas mo iyan sa nakakabasa kung ano iyong monthly na binabayaran nila. Ang nangyari pagdating ng filling and payment iyong instead of three months isang buwan na lang (he chuckled) which is iyon ang aming binabantayan”

In this new rule this year, the taxpayers of the VAT pay every March, June, September, and December.