Income tax take to boost BIR revenues

Income taxes due today are expected to provide a significant boost to the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s haul for the month, a senior official said.

“[We are ] still hopeful [that] we [will] exceed actual collections…,” BIR Deputy Commissioner Marissa Cabreros told The Manila Times over the weekend, referring to the bureau’s P232.6-billion take in April last year, which was 24 percent or P44.9 billion better compared to a year earlier.