Arroyo names BIR officer-in-charge
AIE BALAGTAS SEE, GMANews.TV
11/03/2009 | 05:39 PM
(Updated 7:34 p.m.) Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) senior deputy commissioner Joel Tan-Torres has been appointed as officer-in-charge of the bureau after Commissioner Sixto Esquivias IV's quit his post last week.
Tan will function as tax chief until President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo appoints a permanent commissioner, according to Press Secretary Cerge Remonde.
Under Executive Order 827, the senior deputy commissioner is mandated to perform the commissioner’s function in the latter’s absence.
Esquivias, the sixth tax chief to quit post since 2001, has yet to disclose his reason for resigning. He left BIR amid the bureau's failure to meet its P798.5-billion collection target this year.
As of September, the BIR was down by P39.2 billion as it earned P557 billion against the goal of P596.2 billion.
Remonde said they are wishing Esquivias luck. "We appreciate Esquivias' service and his delicadeza. With that, we wish him luck in his future endeavors," he said.
Deputy spokesman for economic affairs Gary Olivar said the marching order to the next BIR chief would be to “get those targets, meet those targets, and bring in the collection."
Tan-Torres said in a statement that the bureau would be hard-pressed in meeting its collective target of P798.5 billion for the year due to the recently passed tax-eroding measures such as increase in personal exemptions, optional standard deductions, and minimum wage tax incentives.
“The revenue collection efforts of the BIR have seriously been impaired," he said.
Olivar said the calamities and the global crisis have aggravated the revenue problem by lowering the level of taxable economic transactions. He said the worst case scenario would be to have a deficit of up to P300 billion, which he said is still manageable. - GMANews.TV
Tan will function as tax chief until President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo appoints a permanent commissioner, according to Press Secretary Cerge Remonde.
Under Executive Order 827, the senior deputy commissioner is mandated to perform the commissioner’s function in the latter’s absence.
Esquivias, the sixth tax chief to quit post since 2001, has yet to disclose his reason for resigning. He left BIR amid the bureau's failure to meet its P798.5-billion collection target this year.
As of September, the BIR was down by P39.2 billion as it earned P557 billion against the goal of P596.2 billion.
Remonde said they are wishing Esquivias luck. "We appreciate Esquivias' service and his delicadeza. With that, we wish him luck in his future endeavors," he said.
Deputy spokesman for economic affairs Gary Olivar said the marching order to the next BIR chief would be to “get those targets, meet those targets, and bring in the collection."
Tan-Torres said in a statement that the bureau would be hard-pressed in meeting its collective target of P798.5 billion for the year due to the recently passed tax-eroding measures such as increase in personal exemptions, optional standard deductions, and minimum wage tax incentives.
“The revenue collection efforts of the BIR have seriously been impaired," he said.
Olivar said the calamities and the global crisis have aggravated the revenue problem by lowering the level of taxable economic transactions. He said the worst case scenario would be to have a deficit of up to P300 billion, which he said is still manageable. - GMANews.TV
