BIR-CAR up beat to meet 2024 goal of P12.01-Billion
BAGUIO CITY
The Cordillera Region revenue collections went up by 25.79 percent in the first nine months of the year, Bureau of Internal Revenue – Cordillera OIC-Regional Director Corazon Balinas said. Balinas, during the Kapihan sa Bagong Pilipinas, said total revenues in January to September (tentative) for this year amounted to P7.937 billion. Infrastructure projects both from the government and private sector ,property/ housing development to include condominiums ,power generation and distribution , public service activities, education services and other business activities topped the list that largely contributed in the increase of revenue collection.
It is marked by the increase of collection from the different Revenue District Office (RDO) across the region — Baguio City, La Trinidad-Benguet, Mt. Province, Abra, and Kalinga-Apayao. ‘All RDOs in the Cordillera region performed well and have surpassed the goals given to them,’ said Balinas who led other regional BIR officials, mostly chiefs of the different divisions in the press forum held on Oct.8. ‘Tax payers were compliant stressed Balinas, attributing the increase of revenue collections, and put Cordillera to No. 3 nationwide in tax collection efficiency from being among the lowest performers.
Balinas expressed optimism that BIR-CAR will meet its (2024) goal of P12.01 billion with three months left before the year ends, pointing that RDOs sustained efforts to collect and are motivated of the increase trend in tax collection. Based on the Regional Consolidated Collection Report (September), showed the BIR in Abra exceeded its
collection from January to Oct. 7 by 63.19 percent; Baguio City by 10.14 percent; Benguet by 52.35 percent; Mountain Province by 10.57 percent; Kalinga and Apayao by 15.05 percent; and Ifugao by 16.73 percent. Merlyn DV Vicente, CPA, head of RDO-Baguio, said it collected P3.565 billion in span of nine months, exceeded P35.192 million, equivalent to 9.72 percent increase as compared to the P3.249 billion recorded in the same period last year.
For September (2024) alone, RDO Baguio collected P373.850 million, exceeded by P35.192 million equivalent to
10.39 percent increase versus the P338.657 million record of the same month in 2023. Vicente shared Balinas
observation that Baguio taxpayers are compliant. Meanwhile, on the BIR’s Run Against Tax Evaders (RATE) program, four cases were recorded in the region — one filed in the BIR central office while the other three filed in the region. Some 19 cases of delinquent tax payers were filed in 2023.
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