BOC: Three ports hit annual collection targets
Published Dec 18, 2018 08:16 am
By Betheena Kae Unite
Three of the 17 ports under the Bureau of Customs have already hit their respective annual collection targets before the end of the year.
(MANILA BULLETIN)
The Port of Zamboanga was the recent collection district that already achieved its collection target for 2018, joining two other ports – the Port of Tacloban and Port of Cebu -- who have already delivered their complete collection this year.
The three ports also exceeded their respective revenue collection goals, the bureau said.
According to the bureau’s data, the Port of Zamboanga was assigned to collect P288,000,000 for 2018.
As of December 17, the port has already collected a total of P351,787,450.66 or 22.15 percent higher than its annual target.
This was after the port posted a P38,661,548 collection for the month of December, surpassing its assigned monthly target of P25 million by 53.65 percent or P13,661,548.
Interim District Collector Segundo Sigmundfreud Barte, Jr. said that “the intensified anti-smuggling drive resulted to the rise in the revenue collection from the importation of rice and cement.”
He added that the importation of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), round logs, refined bleach and deodorized palm oil also contributed to the higher collection records of the port.
Last week, the Port of Cebu has already completed its revenue collection goal for this year, posting a total of P27.806-billion revenue collection, higher than the port’s P27.436-billion collection target.
During the first week of December, the bureau also announced that the Port of Tacloban had already hit its annual target with an overwhelming 213 percent surplus. The port has collected P1-billion, way higher than its P321-million annual collection target.
Customs Commissioner Rey Leonardo Guerrero, who celebrated his birthday Monday, said he has only one wish for Christmas and for his birthday -- to hit the bureau’s annual collection target of P598 billion.
“Sana ma-hit natin ang target natin and most importantly, ipagpatuloy natin ang mga nasimulan natin nitong mga nakaraang buwan. Tuluy-tuloy na ito hanggang next year (I hope we hit the target and most importantly, we may continue what we have started in the past months. Let’s continue this until next year),” Guerrero said to all customs personnel during the bureau’s flag raising ceremony.
(MANILA BULLETIN)
The Port of Zamboanga was the recent collection district that already achieved its collection target for 2018, joining two other ports – the Port of Tacloban and Port of Cebu -- who have already delivered their complete collection this year.
The three ports also exceeded their respective revenue collection goals, the bureau said.
According to the bureau’s data, the Port of Zamboanga was assigned to collect P288,000,000 for 2018.
As of December 17, the port has already collected a total of P351,787,450.66 or 22.15 percent higher than its annual target.
This was after the port posted a P38,661,548 collection for the month of December, surpassing its assigned monthly target of P25 million by 53.65 percent or P13,661,548.
Interim District Collector Segundo Sigmundfreud Barte, Jr. said that “the intensified anti-smuggling drive resulted to the rise in the revenue collection from the importation of rice and cement.”
He added that the importation of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), round logs, refined bleach and deodorized palm oil also contributed to the higher collection records of the port.
Last week, the Port of Cebu has already completed its revenue collection goal for this year, posting a total of P27.806-billion revenue collection, higher than the port’s P27.436-billion collection target.
During the first week of December, the bureau also announced that the Port of Tacloban had already hit its annual target with an overwhelming 213 percent surplus. The port has collected P1-billion, way higher than its P321-million annual collection target.
Customs Commissioner Rey Leonardo Guerrero, who celebrated his birthday Monday, said he has only one wish for Christmas and for his birthday -- to hit the bureau’s annual collection target of P598 billion.
“Sana ma-hit natin ang target natin and most importantly, ipagpatuloy natin ang mga nasimulan natin nitong mga nakaraang buwan. Tuluy-tuloy na ito hanggang next year (I hope we hit the target and most importantly, we may continue what we have started in the past months. Let’s continue this until next year),” Guerrero said to all customs personnel during the bureau’s flag raising ceremony.