Probe on BIR ad campaign sought

SAYING that the advertising campaign of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) portraying some professionals as a burden to other taxpayers may have been done in bad taste, a lawmaker now wants the Senate to step in and conduct and investigate the matter.

Sen. Nancy Binay, said that she will ask her colleagues, though a resolution, to conduct an inquiry on the latest campaign of the BIR headed by Commissioner Kim Henares, that depicts doctors and other professionals as a burden to other tax payers.