Finance Secretary Benjamin Diokno led the DOF and its attached agencies in presenting their proposed budget next year, which includes reforming the system and attracting more employees with a better pay grade.
These tactics include using the traders’ household helpers, drivers and even the dead ones in their documents. "We should deter by example...Someone should have been jailed had the Bureau of Customs done its job... let's be serious with our jobs at the Bureau of Customs," Tulfo said. Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, on the other hand, opted to quiz the Bureau of Internal Revenue and the BOC regarding the two agencies’ decades-long unfilled positions.
BIR Commissioner Romeo Lumagui, Jr., said that while they keep on actively promoting their vacancies, there are no takers due to a low pay rate. “We really need to support, we need support for the adjustments of the salaries because it will help a lot in attracting talents especially for accountants and lawyers. And also as far as improving the plantilla items as well.