The "Ehem, Aha Training Program of the Office of the Ombudsman"..... Fiasco? Falpak? Fake?
The biggest crime of all is not the crime that is being broadcasted in every TV station, website, podcast, radio and newspaper because it is too small in scope and scale. To explain it further, the alleged crime of the Napoles Family and the alleged corruption of the Binay Family have so much commercial value. Such value attracts so many advertisers and sponsors while the petty crime of a revenue officer may pass unnoticed because it is insignificant to affect the profitability of the media industry.
A grain of rice is so insignificant because it can't feed your family. However, a kilo of which is enough to feed several people. From this point of view, the petty crime that is being committed daily by most of the 12 thousand revenue officers is bigger than the crime that is committed by their bosses.
In one of the unheralded news, a BIR top official pocketed 50 million pesos in exchange for sparing an area in the Visayas region from the Oplan Kandado and Tax Mapping activities. At a glance, the amount of 50 million pesos is so big but it is also too small when compared to the cut and corruption being perpetuated by the small time revenue officers. For example, the 120 revenue district offices have 120 registration units. Each unit has a corrupt revenue officer who is intentionally delaying the processing of taxpayers' returns and applications. The catastrophic result for these taxpayers is also a delay in doing business and earning a decent profit. However, in exchange for 3 thousand pesos, a taxpayer can get what he needs in 30 minutes. So multiply at least 10 victims a day, 200 days a year, the 3 thousand pesos for each victim and 120 revenue district offices, will give you -720 million pesos which is higher than the 50 million kickback presented above. This is only a unit and there are several units per RDO.
The Ehem, Aha promises that any lead that a taxpayer/concerned citizen will provide to the Office of the Ombudsman will be pursued without any delay, purpose of evasion and mental reservation are being undermined. Now, it seemed that its promises will remain, as all the promises from the past went through, a broken promise.
The purpose of all the Legal Petition Notices that are being filed to the Office of the Ombudsman is to inform it that a petty crime is once again being perpetuated knowingly by a revenue officer. However, it is becoming so apparent that some of the officials of the Office of the Ombudsman are becoming allies of corruption, malfeasance, misfeasance and nonfeasance.
More importantly, it is not the intention of the LPN to delay or prevent the Bureau of Internal Revenue and its officials from doing what is legal. In other words, the LPN is exposing an act that is being done in contrary to the mandatory and prohibitory law. The very good public official will act on it decisively. The prevention and proliferation of illegal acts from the 12 thousand revenue officers must be the first priority of the Office of the Ombudsman because such directly affects the lives of every taxpayer.
Please remember that the biggest crime of all is the petty crimes being perpetuated knowingly nationwide.
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