Tingog party-list Rep. Jude Acidre on Sunday expressed full support for the call of Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez to the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to ensure that the agency would hit higher revenue collections and that the government could fund the programs of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
He said it is important for the BIR to further improve its tax collections and hit its revenue targets while Congress is doing its part to support the agency through legislation.
“We’d like to reiterate also the position of the Speaker that Congress has also done their part to also assist BIR, especially with the passage of the Ease of Paying Taxes Act,” he said.
“So we are doing everything we can to support BIR and its revenue collection initiatives to make it easier for us to pay taxes,” he added.
Romualdez earlier urged the BIR to ensure the efficiency in tax collections, emphasizing that “hitting revenue targets means the government can fund its spending program, which will enable growth.”
“The Marcos Jr. administration is very aggressive in ensuring economic growth, and it is very important for the BIR not to miss its revenue targets to fund the President’s programs to combat hunger and poverty,” Acidre said.
“We are more aggressive with ensuring economic growth towards the end of this administration. Napaka-importante po na we don’t miss our targets to make sure that the economic growth, our trajectory to the economic growth that we’ve want to realize, is on track,” he said.
