Measures to respond to the President’s call for change in the BOC include personnel movements and the appointment of new officials and staff, including a new Commissioner and six new Deputy Commissioners. New offices under the DOF were also created, i.e., the Office of Revenue Agency Modernization (ORAM) and the Customs Policy Research Office (CPRO), which are tasked to review current systems in revenue-generating agencies to increase collections and modernize operations.
This has resulted in the increase of cash collections to P265.79 billion for the period of January to September 2014, an 18% percent improvement from the collections in the same period in 2013. Recently, the BOC posted revenues of P32.87-Billion in September 2014, the highest-ever single-month collection of the agency, on the back of continuous improvements in valuation and an increase in the volume of imported goods. September’s collection is up 27.2% versus the same month last year. Improvements in the Bureau’s system for the valuation of goods, coupled with enhanced enforcement and apprehension efforts, yielded an 18.23% hike in the customs value for imported products and a 19% increase in the duties and taxes collected, offsetting a slight decrease in the average tariff rate.
Other reforms include a return-to-mother-units order for BOC personnel to return to their permanent plantilla positions, the rotation of Intelligence Group (IG) personnel in BOC and DOF offices, and the transfer of post-entry audit functions of the BOC to the DOF.
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