Lipa City – The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) District No. 59 reported on July 27 that it had collected taxes of about P1.46 billion for the first six month of the year, exceeding its collection target by 15.57 percent.
The district aims to collect revenues worth P1.26 billion for the said period of January 1 to June 30, 2010.
In its report, the BIR said that they were also able to raise their revenue collections in the district by 39.10 percent more than the previous year, when they only collected about P1.05 billion worth of taxes in the same period.
The district covers 17 municipalities and two cities in the province such as the towns of Agoncillo, Alitagtag, Balete, Cuenca, Ibaan, Laurel, Malvar, Mataas na Kahoy, Padre Garcia, Rosario, San Jose, San Juan, San Nicolas, Sta. Teresita, Sto. Tomas, Talisay, Taysan, and the cities of Lipa and Tanauan City.
According to the report, Lipa City emerged as the top collector of taxes in the district with P524.68 million, followed by Sto. Tomas (P303.35 million) and Malvar town (P151.78 million).
The report further said that San Nicolas town had the least amount of revenues collected with only P919,631.76 in the said period, followed by Sta. Teresita, which was able to collect only P1.2 million from the taxpayers.
There are no big business establishments like banks, factories, and shopping malls in the said towns as most of the people depend only on farming and fishing for livelihood.
BIR Revenue District 59 Collection Officer Zenaida Datingaling said the big bulk of the collected revenues came from withholding taxes of employees, particularly the manufacturing firms located in the LIMA Land and First Philippine Industrial Park.
The industrial parks are located within Lipa city, Sto. Tomas, Malvar and Tanauan City, which are among the top collectors in the district.
The BIR was also able to collect value added taxes of P55.5 million in April alone, when the people regularly file their income tax, according to Datingaling.
Datingaling attributed the increase of collected taxes to the BIR’s intensified efforts in tax mapping.
“We had a memorandum of agreement with the local government units requiring their permits and licenses division to furnish us a copy of the names of those people who apply for permits, so we can have them registered before us,” Datingaling said.
Through tax mapping, she said BIR monitors business establishments and subject them into surveillance if ever they fail to issue receipts to their customers.
She said they will also continue to issue letters to the businessmen to remind them of their duty to pay taxes to the government.
This year, the BIR has set a goal revenue collection of P2.7 billion for the district. (Marlon Alexander Luistro)
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