Tag: Negros Island

BIR-Region 12 aims to collect P14.3-B in 2019

BACOLOD CITY — The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) Revenue Region 12 (BIR-12), which covers Negros Island and Siquijor, is aiming to collect PHP14.3 billion in tax this year.

The target was bared by the head of the regional office during the launching of the agency’s tax campaign logo and slogan this year in a program held at the regional office’s Function Hall in this city on Monday. 

Regional Director Aynie Madajoyan-Dizon called on the tax officials and employees to work together to increase the revenue collection for the year.


Bureau of Internal Revenue-Revenue Region 12 Director Aynie Mandajoyan-Dizon (left) leads the launching of the agency’s 2019 tax collection campaign logo and slogan at the regional office’s Function Hall in Bacolod City on Monday, Feb. 18, 2019.
Contributed photo
 

In 2018, BIR-Revenue Region 12 posted a deficit of PHP3.9 billion after it collected only PHP9.3 billion out of its PHP13.2-billion target collection.

“We remain optimistic to hit the collection target this year,” Madajoyan-Dizon said.

The BIR-Revenue Region 12 coverage area includes revenue district offices in Bacolod City, Victorias City and Binalbagan town in Negros Occidental; Dumaguete City in Negros Oriental; and Siquijor Province.

Madajoyan-Dizon said that 2019 is an exciting year for BIR-Revenue Region 12, not just because of their higher target, but also because of the new developments, projects, and programs implemented by the management for its employees.

“The BIR takes charge of 70 percent of the national collection. Without us, it would be difficult for the government to finance the projects for the people,” she added.

For 2019, the BIR campaign slogan is “Para sa inyo. Maging tapat tayo. Serbisyong tapat, buwis na sapat” (For you. Let us be honest. Honest service, adequate tax).

This year’s logo, conceptualized by multi-awarded designer Kenneth Cobonpue, consists of a heart-shaped blue and red shaking hands with three yellow rays of the sun at the center.

The logo emphasizes the rendering of excellent, faithful, sincere and dedicated service to the taxpayers with the agency’s belief that excellent service would encourage the public to regularly and properly their taxes.

The heart symbolizes “katapatan”, particularly in meeting obligations which can be achieved through collaboration between the BIR and taxpayers while the hand shaking gesture connects and brings the BIR and taxpayers together in responding to the call for action.

The rising sun depicts progress and improvement in the lives of the Filipinos that can be achieved through right collection and payment of taxes, which will fuel government services and projects.

The BIR-Revenue Region 12 also launched the jingle “Para sa Inyo”, composed by Filipino singer Lito Camo, which conveys the same messages depicted in the new logo and slogan. (PNA)

Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1062316

NegOcc ARB leaders sign petition vs. sugar import liberalization

BACOLOD CITY — More than 170 leaders of agrarian reform cooperatives and organizations in southern Negros signed a petition opposing the liberalization of sugar importation.

The manifesto was circulated during a dialogue with the groups involved in sugar production facilitated by Pontevedra Mayor Jose Benito Alonso with Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) Board Member Emilio Yulo III on Wednesday.

Copies were furnished by organizers to the local media in the afternoon.

The dialogue, held at the Pontevedra Gymnasium, came days after Yulo, who represents the planters, and Board Member Roland Beltran, representative of the millers, allayed concerns of industry stakeholders amid the reported plan of the government to liberalize sugar importation because of high sugar prices and restrictive import policy of the SRA.

“We farmers and agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) of Negros Occidental are one in calling to oppose the plan of Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno to allow unrestricted sugar importation,” part of the manifesto written in the local dialect read.

Among the first signatories is Pedro Ogatis, manager of Hacienda Malaga Cuenca Agrarian Reform Cooperative (Macarben) in La Castellana town, an organization which is implementing the sugar block farming program of the Department of Agrarian Reform.

The manifesto said sugar importation without ample protection for the local industry is a dangerous and wrong move and highly disadvantageous to small sugarcane farmers and poor land reform beneficiaries.

Unrestricted sugar importation will result in lower mill gate price and high cost of farm production, it added.

This would lead to a widespread crisis and deterioration of ordinary families, farmers and ARBs towards poverty and debt, it added.

The manifesto cited that 70 percent of the economy of Negros Island and 55 percent of the livelihood of Negrenses rely on the sugar industry, and more than 250,000 ARBs depend on the industry alone.

It said that the solution should be protection for the sugar industry through the provision of technical and financial subsidy for the farmers; implementation of agricultural modernization program from the farms to the sugar mills; abolition of excise tax on sugar; and implementation of the true meaning of land reform among farms. (PNA)

Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1059866