PAGADIAN CITY – The Bureau of Internal
Revenue (BIR) Revenue Region No. 15, Revenue District No. 92 kicked-off its
2013 tax campaign on Monday at Margarita Hall, Hotel Camila this city.
BIR Revenue Region No. 15 Director Atty. Alert B.
Alocilja said this yearly activity was held to emphasize BIR’s tax campaign for
this year whose deadline will be on April 15.
“Our tax campaign slogan for this year is ‘I love the
Philippines, I pay taxes correctly.’ Why correctly? Because there are taxpayers
not paying their taxes correctly. If all taxpayers are paying the correct
taxes, according to Commissioner Kim Henares, we will have an excess tax
collection in the country,” Alocilja explained.
“Truly we should pay the correct amount of tax if we
really love our country, this is our measure of our patriotism,” Alocilja
emphasized.
“It has been said that taxes are the life-blood of our
country and no nation could exist without taxes,” Alocilja further said, adding
“there will be no development, no progress, as the government could not run
without taxes.”
Part of the taxes collected is being “flowed back for
the development of the local government units’ infrastructures such as building
hospitals, roads and bridges as well maintaining peace and order,” said the BIR
official.
Alocilja also announced that the target goal of BIR
Zamboanga Peninsula Region for 2013 has been raised from P3.82-billion in 2012
to P5.01 billion, with an increase of P1.19 billion or 31.1 percent.
The reason for this increase was that BIR collection
target for this year also rose from P1.03- trillion in 2012 to P1.25- trillion,
with an increase of P193.2 billion or 18.71 percent.
“This increase represents the need of our country for
more revenues to maintain government operations and to spur economic
development in the country. BIR as the prime collection agency contributes
about 65 percent of its collections to the coffers of the national government,”
Alocilja said. (PIA9)
