The Department of Finance addressed the concerns raised by city mayors about the National Tax Allotment (NTA) share computations. Finance Secretary Ralph
Finance Secretary Ralph Recto meets city mayors to resolve their concerns on the computation of the National Tax Allotment shares for local government units on Jan. 15, 2025. Recto provided a detailed line-by-line briefing to the city mayors on the NTA computations, ensuring full alignment with the principles of the 2019 Mandanas-Garcia Supreme Court ruling and relevant laws.
A comparison of the computations between the LGUs and the DOF was also discussed, revealing that the calculations and deductions under various laws were more or less aligned. Baguio City Mayor Magalong, in particular, expressed his apologies to Secretary Recto for his earlier remarks suggesting that LGUs were being shortchanged in their NTAs.
The 2019 Mandanas-Garcia ruling of the Supreme Court , which took effect in 2022, increased the NTA shares of LGUs to 40 percent of all national taxes beyond those collected by the Bureau of Internal Revenue .
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