BIR East - P’sinan Tops Collection

 UNDER ITS NEW CHIEF

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

URDANETA CITY, Pangasinan – The newly minted Revenue District Office (RDO) No. 6 Chief that oversees the collection for the government in the eastern Pangasinan tops the collection in the six RDOs in Region 1.

“Actually we exceeded our goal by 20 percent. We actually topped the February collection (in the region),” told by Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) RDO No.6 Chief Ma. Susana SP. Santos to Northern Watch Newspaper after she exceeded by twenty percent (20%) the collection of her office compared what her predecessor collected on the same month last year.

 

NEW Revenue District Office No.6 Chief Ma. Susana SP. Santos of the Bureau of Internal Revenue who supervises Urdaneta City and 15 towns of eastern Pangasinan.

Upon assumption of the post here, Santos disclosed that her hands were already full mapping and implementing strategies how to boost collection for the government this year.

Another high tax official told this newspaper that Santos is tasked to collect P3.023 billion this year.

“Actually we already planned our strategy for the whole year that include in intensifying the tax audit program and we will concentrate in those who are complying less instead of those who are complying taxpayers so we will deal with them first,” she stressed.

 Santos said that her office focuses too on industries thus her zealous implementation of the Oplan Kandado (closure of a business) and the Run After Tax Evaders (RATE) Program.

Her team already conducted surveillance in the past weeks before they pound on the erring taxpayers.  

“We also follow it up with stock taking. Basically, we will be busy for the whole year. We are sure that with those programs we will reach our collection target for the year”.

One of the strategies for compliance is to instill to the mind of the taxpayers that the BIR is serious on its enforcement.

She wants to see that the lessors and the leases would be accountable too on their noncompliance. Santos pledges to vigorously run after them.

She told optimistically this newspaper that with the strategies she laid down with her staff “we will definitely reach our collection target for this year”.

The one city and fifteen towns’ eastern Pangasinan is the first post of Santos as RDO chief.

She was Assistant RDO No. 50 chief in South Makati – one of the top collecting RDOs in the country – before the main office in Quezon City assigned her here.

Santos finished her elementary and high school at an affiliate schools of St. Scholastic in Pasig City while she graduated her tertiary at Holy Spirit College in Metro Manila.