2005 BIR Monitor

The Presidential Anti-Graft Commission (PAGC) cited the BIR as one of the top five (5) government agencies with the highest compliance rate on the 22 anti-corruption measures under PAGC’s Integrity Development Action Plan (IDAP).

Top revenue officials formulated the BIR’s strategic plans and directions for 2006-2010 in a three-day planning session held from November 17 to 19

The BIR is all set to implement the Expanded Value-Added Tax (EVAT) Law starting November 1. 

The BIR exceeded its collection goal for the month of August 2005, setting a record-breaking year-on-year surplus in the Bureau's history.

BIR commemorated its 101st founding anniversary last August 1 with simple but meaningful rites and events highlighting the agency’s past achievements, current thrusts and five-year platform for increasing tax collections.

Top officials of the BIR and DoF assured that there will be no reprieve in the Run After Tax Evaders (RATE) campaign against tax evasion.

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo commended the BIR for posting a record-setting tax collection of P 62.9 Billion in April this year, the highest monthly collection in the agency's history.

The BIR's anti-tax evasion campaign is paying off with the successive filing of tax evasion charges against prominent personalities and with two court victories scored against tax criminals.

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declared April 2005 as Tax Awareness Month under Proclamation No. 812, to promote and instill awareness and appreciation of the importance and value of taxes to the society

The Boy Scouts of the Philippines committed to help the BIR in the conduct of its tax information campaign this year by forging a Memorandum of Agreement with the Bureau last February 12.

Business taxpayers who will pay at least 20% more than their previous year’s income tax payments, among other conditions, shall be exempted from internal revenue audits and investigations under the BIR No Audit Program (NAP).