Prohibiting the Payment of Amelioration Assistance and Similar or Equivalent Benefits to All Government Personnel in FY 1999

October 26, 1999 REVENUE MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR NO. 78-99 SUBJECT : Prohibiting the Payment of Amelioration Assistance and Similar or Equivalent Benefits to All Government Personnel in FY 1999 TO : All Internal Revenue Officers, Employees and Others Concerned For the information and guidance of revenue officials and employees, quoted hereunder is Administrative Order No. 87 dated September 24, 1999 by the President: "PROHIBITING THE PAYMENT OF AMELIORATION ASSISTANCE AND SIMILAR OR EQUIVALENT BENEFITS TO ALL GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL IN FY 1999 WHEREAS, there has been unequal payment of amelioration assistance to government employees in the past years, giving rise to complaints, dissatisfaction and discontent among government personnel who received less or were not able to enjoy said benefit: WHEREAS, the granting of amelioration assistance does not form part of the agencies' budget for the year; NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH EJERCITO ESTRADA, President of the Republic of the Philippines, do hereby order and direct: SECTION 1. That payment of amelioration assistance and similar or equivalent benefits, except those expressly provided for in the 1999 National Budget, shall not be allowed in FY 1999; SECTION 2. That anyone found violating this directive shall be dealt with in accordance with the applicable provisions of existing administrative and penal laws; SECTION 3. This Administrative Order shall take effect immediately. DONE in the City of Manila, this 24th day of September, in the year of our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Nine. LibLex (SGD.) JOSEPH EJERCITO ESTRADA. President By the President: (SGD.) RONALDO B. ZAMORA Executive Secretary" All revenue officials and employees are enjoined to give this circular as wide a publicity as possible. (SGD.) BEETHOVEN L. RUALO Commissioner of Internal Revenue ATTACHMENT September 24, 1999 September 24, 1999 ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 87 PROHIBITING THE PAYMENT OF AMELIORATION ASSISTANCE AND SIMILAR OR EQUIVALENT BENEFITS TO ALL GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL IN FY 1999 WHEREAS, there has been unequal payment of amelioration assistance to government employees in the past years, giving rise to complaints, dissatisfaction and discontent among government personnel who received less or were not able to enjoy said benefit; WHEREAS, the granting of amelioration assistance does not form part of the agencies' budget for the year; NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH EJERCITO ESTRADA, President of the Republic of the Philippines, do hereby order and direct: SECTION 1. That payment of amelioration assistance and similar or equivalent benefits, except those expressly provided for in the 1999 National Budget, shall not be allowed in FY 1999; cdtace SECTION 2. That anyone found violating this directive shall be dealt with in accordance with the applicable provisions of existing administrative and penal laws; SECTION 3. This Administrative Order shall take effect immediately. DONE in the City of Manila, this 24th day of September, in the year of our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Nine.