RMC No. 72-2013 — Publishes the full text of Department Order No. 052-2013 entitled "Formalizing the Fiscal Intelligence Unit (FIU) Under the Office of the Secretary of Finance"

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SUBJECT: Publishing the Full Text of Department Order No. 052.2013 issued by Intelligence Unit (FIU) Under the Office of the Secretary of Finance" the Department of Finance Entitled "Formalizing the Fiscal

TO : All Internal Revenue Officials, Employees and Others Concerned

For the information and guidance of all internal revenue officials, empioyees and others concerned, quoted hereunder is the full text of Department Order No. 052.2013 dated October 11, 2013 issued by the Department of Finance.

"DEPARTMENT ORDER NO. 052.2013 11 October 2013

SUBJECT: UNDER THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF FINANCE FORMALIZING THE FISCAL INTELLIGENCE UNIT (FIU)

of Finance as the DOF data analytics unit in charge of the following increase the government's tax to GDP ratio to 16% by 2016, the functions: integrity, to"uproot corruption, eliminate tax evasion and smugging, and to Department of Finance (DOF) hereby formalizes the establishment of the Fiscal Intelligence Unit (FIU) under the Office of the Secretary, Department Pursuant to the goal of the Aquino administration to protect revenue

1. Identifying potential revenue sources and leakages by analyzing data from the Bureau of internal Revenue (BiR), Bureau of

and other revenue generating agencies attached to the Customs (BOC), Bureau of Local Goverriment Finance (BLGF))

Department, and comparing these with third party information:

2...Monitoring the revenue-performance of the implementing offices of the revenue generating agencies in coordination with their respective statistics divisions, and recommending to the Secretary of Finance improvements to help achieve their

targets; and

3. Other such functions that the Secretary of Finance identifies in the exigencies of service.

provide necessary support in the performance of its mandate. The FiU shall be under the direct supervision and control of the Secretary of Finance, To augment the staffing complement, the FiU, upon approval of the Secretary of Finance, may hire or engage technical consultants to

This Order shall take effect immediately.

All concerned may please be guided accordingly

CESAR V. PURISIMA (Original Signed) Secretary'r

Circular a wide pubiicity as possible All concerned are hereby enjoined to be guided accordingly and to give this

Commissionef of Internal Revenue KIM S. JACINTO-HENARES

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