Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) Commisioner Caesar Dulay has sought the support of Davao City in Mindanao for the agency’s 2017 tax drive to collect P1.829 trillion in taxes to fund various programs of President Rodrigo Duterte. The appeal was made during the kickoff of this year’s tax campaign of BIR Revenue Region (RR) 19 in Davao City. We seek the same show of support to the BIR from you,” Dulay said in his keynote address. According to him, about 80 percent of government tax revenues that support and fund the government’s expenses and delivery of public goods and services come from the BIR. Dulay asked taxpayers to support the tax drive by paying their income taxes by the April 15, 2017 deadline for the filing of 2016 income tax returns.

Source: Manila Times March 15, 2017 18:00 UTC