Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) Commissioner Romeo Lumagui Jr. actively led today the agency’s first-ever simultaneous nationwide trade enforcements against perpetrators of illicit cigarette trade. Know more:
Bureau of Internal Revenue Commissioner Romeo Lumagui Jr. actively led today the agency’s first-ever simultaneous nationwide trade enforcements against perpetrators of illicit cigarette trade, placing all regional enforcers on alert and in action while conducting operations on 378 stores in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
The BIR chief thanked the cooperation and the assistance extended by the PNP and various local government units in their successful operations but at the same time lauded all the BIR regional officials in their concerted efforts. Various Revenue regions in Luzon held a total of 195 in simultaneous trade enforcements in Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija,Tarlac, Zambales, Pampanga, Bulacan, Palawan, Rizal, Cavite, Cavite and in Manila. Authorities have launched 115 in Mindanao and 68 in Visayas.
More than 100 raided stores were located in public markets selling various brands of illegal cigarettes at a wholesale price as low as P30 per pack. BIR is now preparing the filing of appropriate charges against the owners of the stores in violation of various offenses in relation to National Internal Revenue Code of 1997 and the BIR’s minimum price requirement, among others.
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