The Bureau of Internal Revenue is now a new political and intelligence arena

The Bureau of Internal Revenue:
As an analyst or as a student of business management, the BIR is one of the most challenging to think about. Let us say, I will leave the issue on how to “fix” the BIR temporarily to the shelves and let MBA, BA or economics students enjoy their thesis or term papers.
I would just like to comment on recent events at the BIR. The BIR Commissioner resigns and had a graceful exit of sorts. This is understandable. You can end it this way or you can challenge your masters and face the slew of corruption charges against you.
I am prone to believe some of the insinuations going around when I heard the news of the BIR commissioner resigning. The Commissioner resigned because he can not in conscience implement instructions given him by Malacanang strategists.
One thing that really provokes my anger is for intelligent people or strategists that group themselves and cheat, lie or even rob the people. I call this fraud, deceit or robbery in band. I am new in the area of journalism but from this day onward, I am taking it as my obligation to expose anyone or anything that is not in the way of righteousness.
This is the situation in the BIR as I see it now. It’s only a simple issue of implementing the order to control expenditure of the politicians. The opposition sensed this. Actually the opposition probably had information from the resigned bureau chief about this. Anyone who understands taxation can easily understand this. The sole purpose of this strategy is to monitor the opposition and harass everyone in relation to this: donors, supporters, suppliers and many more. The BIR can now harass a politician for not following the order and may subsequently file tax evasion charges.
To our dear strategists at Malacanang - do not think that everyone is stupid. I believe many people are a lot more intelligent than you are. They are just passive and probably apathetic. I am therefore taking the advocacy to call on intelligent people specially my fellow man at U.P. , Ateneo, de la Salle and other institutions of higher learning. Stand up and be counted. Let us group together to fight injustice and lies. It’s time to end evil.
I happened to hear the new OIC when he was first interviewed at the radio. He made it so casual to announce the move to tax politician. First few hours at the helm and he had this ingenious idea. When ask how much money he can raise. He said about P1.4 Billion. Asked again how much expenditure is this. He said he will get the calculator first and replied about P20 Billion. I am not someone who would belittle any person but I can tell that Mr. Torres probably never thought about this measure beforehand and I assure him he will not get anything positive about it except a better cash flow. I will tell the Filipino masses that this is not a tax at all. Only Congress can adapt any tax measures and the BIR has no power to make any tax measure. The 5% withholding tax will result to no improvement to the net collection or the BIR. The suppliers will just use the amount paid to credit their accounts with the BIR. The amount will be used to pay for sales taxes or taxes on net profit. This is why it is easy to see that this measure is meant to monitor politicians who are running.
I am really sorry for the new OIC at BIR, Mr. Joel Tan Torres. He had only 2 ways to go. To disobey the boss and end his career or follow them, probably enrich his self and end up in hell. The only advice I can give him is to pray for God’s guidance and have a way out of this.
Will we see the BIR actively engaging in politics? Heheh. The Acronym BIR will then have a new twist -Bureau of Intelligence and Retaliation. Me ganun.