Finance chief cites BIR’s ‘crucial’ role in reforms

Secretary Carlos Dominguez 3rd of the Department of Finance (DOF) has cited the crucial role played by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) under the Duterte administration, which has pledged to carry out meaningful reforms to make high economic growth sustainable and beneficial to all Filipinos.

Speaking at the 112th anniversary rites of the bureau, Dominguez said the BIR’s stepped-up collection drive is integral to three imperatives that President Rodrigo Duterte had enumerated in his first State of the Nation Address (SONA), which are to reduce poverty from 26 percent to 17 percent, to foster a law-abiding society and to achieve lasting peace with both the communist and Muslim separatist insurgencies.