The Department of Finance (DOF) will work closely with the Department of Justice (DOJ) to speed up the resolution of tax and smuggling cases, and will appoint DOF Undersecretary Gil Beltran as the anti-red tape czar of the agency, Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez 3rd also announced on Tuesday.

In a forum, Dominguez said that the DOF would accelerate its anti-corruption programs mainly focused on the Bureau of Customs (BOC) and the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), including the Run After Tax Evaders (RATE), Run After The Smugglers (RATS) and the Revenue Integrity Protection Service (RIPS) programs.

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