The government is retooling personnel of the country’s tax collection agencies with continuing training on best industry practices to sharpen their competitiveness but will also aim to heighten their commitment to their profession and raise their ethical standards.
The Philippine Tax Academy (PTA), which is under the Department of Finance (DoF), is exploring a partnership with Centre of Development Studies (CDS) of the UK-based University of Cambridge and inked a deal with the University of the Philippines-Los Baños (UPLB) to raise the standards of its course offerings designed to hone the professionalism of the country’s revenue officers.
Finance Undersecretary Gil Beltran said the proposed tie up with CDS aims to develop a study program on integrity education “as a continuing course offering of the PTA.” He added the existing PTA’s program, curriculum and syllabus were developed based on ASEAN University Network Standards.
Launched in February, the PTA is envisioned to provide officials and personnel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, the Bureau of Customs and the Bureau of Local Government Finance to undergo retooling and enhancement seminars and training programs.
Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III said that on the watch of President Duterte, the DoF has taken a “great leap forward” in professionalizing revenue agencies by putting flesh to the PTA eight years after it was envisioned under Republic Act 10143.
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In the course of the DoF’s strategic planning for the PTA, Dominguez said the Department had programmed the institution to be “a fully functioning and self-sustaining dynamic and innovative center of excellence for capacitating tax and customs administrators, taxpayers and other stakeholders.”
Dominguez said he expects the PTA to collect information from all over the world and build strong linkages between research and education, while ensuring “complementarity between professional training and professional management.”
Meanwhile, Beltran said the partnership with UPLB involves a joint program and possible sharing of facilities with the school that will serve as a secondary campus for the PTA. The PTA has also mapped out a set of possible study programs with UP, including a masteral program with specialization on taxation or local finance.
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