BIR collected P582M from closed establishments in first 11 months of 2020 —DOF

Published December 15, 2020 02:10 PM By TED CORDERO,GMA News

The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has collected a total of P582.5 million in taxes in the first 11 months of 2020 from 196 commercial establishments that were padlocked for failure to either register or pay the correct amount of taxes, the Department of Finance (DOF) said Tuesday.

In a statement, the DOF, quoting BIR Deputy Commissioner Arnel Guballa, said the taxman collected an additional P34.5 million in taxes in the last quarter from another 18 commercial establishments it padlocked under the Oplan Kandado program.

With this, from the previous amount of P547.9 million collected

under the program from 178 establishments that were closed down in the first nine months of 2020, the Finance department said the total amount has increased to P582.5 million as of November this year.

The operations conducted against the 196 padlocked establishments were pursuant to Revenue Memorandum Order (RMO) No. 3-2009 or Oplan Kandado Program, it said.

Citing a BIR report to Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III, the DOF said 103 complaints involving an estimated P4.96 billion in tax liabilities that the taxman has filed before the Department of Justice (DOJ) are now under preliminary investigation.

Last year, the BIR collected a total of P1.92 billion under its Oplan Kandado program as a result of the temporary closure of 743 establishments for various violations of the National Internal Revenue Code.

“The BIR's performance under the Oplan Kandado program in 2019 was a 218.88% improvement over its 233 closures of establishments reported in 2018 and a 140.76% increase in collections amounting to P799.47 million during that year,” the DOF said. —KG, GMA News

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