PAGADIAN CITY – “Without the taxpayers, the nation will
not exist.”
This was the statement aired by Revenue
District Office (RDO)-92 chief Atty. Nasrollah B. Conding during the
kickoff of the 2013 tax campaign held last week at Hotel Camila here.
Speaking before the 400 stakeholders,
Conding acknowledged the tremendous contribution of the taxpayers to the
government coffers saying “without you our dear taxpayers, it would be
very difficult for the government to function and implement its various
development programs like roads, schools, bridges, hospitals, armed forces,
police, etc.”
This year’s BIR tax campaign carries the
slogan “I love the Philippines, I pay taxes correctly.”
“Who are those people who help realize the
construction of government’s infrastructure projects? It is you,” Conding said
referring to the taxpayers/stakeholders attending the event.
Conding mentioned the Kennon road – the
major access road to Baguio City from Manila and the provinces of central and
western Luzon – which was severely damaged by a killer quake in July 1990. He
said without people’s taxes, that road could not have been reconstructed
immediately, as it needed $1 billion to pay the workers. “It’s the money of the
taxpayers being spent for the hiring of 1,000 workers,” Conding explained.
Meanwhile, Conding beamed with pride to
announce that RDO 92 had exceeded its collection target for 2012 by 21 percent
or P144,770 million.
RDO-92’s collection goal last year was
P665,535,000 and its actual collection reached P810,305,000.
Conding said the increase in collection
was a result of the agency’s massive tax campaign program. He also attributed the high tax collection
turnout to the remittances made by tax withholding agents and to annual
registration payments of big taxpayers.
