Hundreds of tax collectors of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) have temporarily put off their plan to resign waiting for the approval of a congressional bill that would substantially increase their salaries pay.
The taxmen mostly lawyers and certified public accounts (CPAs) said they would follow their more than 300 colleagues who had resigned recently if Congress disapproves the proposed legislation.
Citing the overwhelming support of congressional leaders to remove the BIR from the Salary Standardization Law, Revenue Deputy Commissioner for Legal Service Jesus Clint Aranas said the bill is likely to be passed before the end of the year.
Aranas, who was tasked by BIR Commissioner Caesar R. Dulay to shepherd the bill to Congress, said many lawmakers led by House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez and Senate President Aquilino Pimentel III are themselves authors of the measure. (Jun Ramirez)
