TO boost the collection of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) in Cebu and Bohol, jobseekers are encouraged to join the tax collecting agency.
Currently, BIR-13 is operating at half its capacity, which makes it more difficult for the revenue region to meet its collection target of P29 billion this year, said Director Aynie Mandajoyan-Dizon Three weeks ago, 65 BIR employees were promoted, which left their previous positions vacant.
These positions include revenue officers and employees for the collection assessment division and taxpayers assistance division.
For the whole year of 2017, BIR-13 is tasked to collect P29.3 billion.
As of January to September, it has collected P20.3 billion, or a 6.89-percent deficit from the nine-month period goal of P21.8 billion, but 13 percent higher than the actual collection recorded in the same period last year.
This means BIR-13 needs to collect P9 billion more to achieve the P29.3 billion goal.
“We are still hopeful because we have many deliquent accounts that we are also pursuing,” said Dizon in a previous interview.
Sixty-five percent of the collection from January to September came from income taxes, 26 percent from Value Added Taxes (VAT), six percent for capital gains taxes or property taxes, and four percent from percentage taxes.
To be an eligible applicant at the tax agency, she said one has to be a civil service exam passer. Jobseekers also need to pass their application forms at the BIR-13 office along Archbishop Reyes Ave. in Cebu City and undergo the BIR pre-employment exam.
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