The project is funded by the Millennium Challenge Account – Philippines (MCA-P), an office of the independent US foreign aid agency created to help developing nations in their fight against poverty by way of implementing strategic threshold programmes.
RARP is composed of the following sub-projects: Electronic Tax Information Systems (ETIS), Automated Auditing Tools (AATs), a Public Awareness Campaign, and an anti-graft investigation unit for the Department of Finance.
The ETIS aims to modernise BIR and provide an enhanced tax administration system that can be fully used by the agency nationwide.
According to MCA-P, this effort will improve the trustworthiness of actions and decisions based on tax data. These, in turn, will improve tax compliance monitoring, reduce client contact and opportunities for negotiated assessments, increase the detection of misreporting and enhance the value of reports. Improved compliance, audit and enforcement tools will contribute to a sustainable program of tax administration leading to increased tax revenue collection.
The bidding process for the implementation of the ETIS is currently underway after the MCA-P formally invited firms to submit their bid documents last November.
Meanwhile, AATs are computer software and hardware for the conduct of computer-assisted audits which promote proper taxpayer compliance in filing and paying taxes.
MCA-P will fund the purchase of software licenses, hardware and subscription to a database service. This initiative will make it possible for tax payers to submit tax records in digital form, thereby reducing by half the number of days it takes to complete a tax audit.
The reduction in man days per tax audit is expected to help BIR reduce its backlog of unfinished audits promote taxpayer satisfaction and ultimately leads to increased revenue collection.
Just recently, revenue officers at the BIR had undergone had a series of training courses to enhance their audit skills in a computerised accounting environment. The training was held at the newly-renovated and furnished Computer-Assisted Training Tools and Techniques (CAATTs) training facility, also part of the AATs sub-project.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Clarice Africa
Quelle/Source: futureGov, 14.01.2013
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