Senator Raffy Tulfo questioned the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) for persistently targeting low-income earners and small-time business owners instead of big-time tax evaders, like oil smugglers, to generate public revenues.
Senator Raffy Tulfo questioned the Bureau of Internal Revenue for persistently targeting low-income earners and small-time business owners instead of big-time tax evaders, like oil smugglers, to generate public revenues.During the Senate finance sub-committee A budget hearing today Oct. 3, Tulfo said he is irked because BIR has a record of targeting Filipino citizens whose jobs are in the lower tiers of the supply chain every time they miss their collection target.
He noted that in 2017, BIR has instructed the 123 revenue district officers nationwide to start listing down “sari-sari” or variety stores and other small-scale businesses for tax collection purposes. He also recalled BIR’s public warning to vloggers to pay their taxes in 2021. If anything, Tulfo said the Bureau of Customs should first show records proving that all the marked fuel products of the BOC matches data from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, which he said has global data showing all companies exporting oil in the country.
Of the said 1,700 gas stations, Tulfo said BOC should provide data showing whether or not gas stations passed in fuel marking.
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