BIR reshuffles regional directors to hit R2.6-trillion goal

The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) started 2019 with a reshuffle of its 11 revenue regional directors to prepare the groundwork of reaching the collection goal for the year estimated at around R2.6 trillion.

More revenue regional directors and other key field personnel are expected to be revamped following the retirement shortly of the head of the large taxpayers service (LTS) which collects roughly 70 percent of the annual total take of the agency, and the splitting of the tax rich Quezon City and Makati revenue regional offices.

In a travel assignment order signed by Revenue Commissioner Caesar R. Dulay, Manila Revenue Regional Director Romulo Aguila, Jr. and Quezon City Revenue Regional Director Marina De Guzman exchanged position.

Also given new assignments were Regional Directors Jethro Sabariaga from San Fernando, Pampanga to Laguna-Quezon-Marinduque (LaQueMar), Edgar Tolentino from LaQueMar to San Fernando, Pampanga; Antonio Jonathan Jaminola from the Cordillerra Autonomous Region (CAR) to Eastern Visayas, Maria Grace Javier from Eastern Visayas to CAR, Thelma Milabao from Tuguegarao City to Calasiao, Pangasinan.

Clavelina Nacar from Calasiao to Tuguegarao City, Esmeralda Tabule from Koronadal City to Davao City, Nuzar Balatero from Davao City to Cagayan de `Oro City, and Lorna Tobias from LaQueMar assistant regional director to director of Koronadal City.

Fiscal authorities have not yet fixed the collection target for the year, but insiders estimated it to be around

R2.6 trillion.

The BIR's goal last year was P2.039 trillion. Dulay told yesterday revenue officials and employees that they are still working hard to hit the target.