MANILA, Philippines - Malacañang has approved the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR)’s rationalization plan to better monitor the business activities of self-employed taxpayers and large enterprises.
The rationalization plan, which was cleared by the Department of Budget and Management, entailed the creation of more Revenue District Offices (RDO) and Revenue Regional Offices (RRO).
At least nine RDOs would be divided, increasing their number from 115 to 124.
The plan also involves the renaming of retained organizational units and the creation, merger or abolition of some divisions.
Among the new units created were the Regular Large Taxpayers Audit Division II and III, Excise Large Taxpayers Audit Division I and II, Excise Large Taxpayers Regulatory Division and Large Taxpayers Division-Cebu. Also formed was a Revenue Data Center in Mindanao.
Each regional office would now have a Document Processing Division.
The Internal Audit Division under the Internal Affairs Service Office of the deputy commissioner for legal group was renamed Performance Evaluation Division.
The plan also called for the consolidation of the Revenue Data Center in Makati and Revenue Data Center V into a National Office Revenue Data Center.
The rationalized staffing shall consist of 2,774 positions for the national office and 16,715 positions for RROs and district offices.
Under the plan, the BIR is tasked to pursue computerization to enhance productivity and improve monitoring and assistance functions as well as provide efficient services to taxpayers, such as in the processing of claims for tax refund/credit.
The BIR shall continue to be under the supervision and control of the Department of Finance and be responsible for the assessment and collection of all national international revenue taxes, fees and charges as well as the enforcement of all forfeitures, penalties and fines, including the execution of judgment in cases decided in its favor by the Court of Tax Appeals and the ordinary courts, Budget Secretary Florencio Abad said.
Despite falling short of targets, BIR’s tax collections have increased every month on the back of the agency’s intensified drive against tax evaders. Collections from BIR operations went up by five percent to P153 billion.
Accounting for about 60 percent of the national revenues, the BIR is tasked to collect P1.56 trillion in taxes this year, 20 percent more than its collection in 2013.
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