The Finance Department plans to tap public universities and colleges such as the University of the Philippines and University of Makati to set up the first tax academy in the country next month.
Finance Undersecretary Gil Beltran said in a report to Secretary Carlos Dominguez III the main campus of the Philippine Tax Academy would be located at UMak in Makati City while the UP College of Economics in Diliman, Quezon City was being eyed to offer executive program certificate courses to interested DoF employees.
Beltran said the DoF also planned to open regional campuses of PTA in the Visayas and Mindanao with the main site in Region 10 following a request by the Bureau of Local Government Finance for the renovation of its Northern Mindanao regional office in Cagayan de Oro City to a PTA Center.
The planned PTA Training Center will provide provincial employees of BLGF, Bureau of Internal Revenue and Bureau of Customs continuing professional education and training on improving tax collection competence and efficiency.