Supplement to Revenue Memorandum Order No. 9-67 Tax Returns Compliance Program

May 3, 1967 REVENUE MEMORANDUM ORDER NO. 29-67 SUBJECT : Supplement to Revenue Memorandum Order No . 9-67 Tax Returns Compliance Program It is the policy of the Bureau to stress the importance of the role played by revenue collectors and cash clerks in relation to the overall BIR improvement activities. Revenue Memorandum Order No. 9-67 outlines a very important program for tax improvement, namely, the Tax Returns Compliance Program. Although revenue district officers as district coordinators for the program were given the discretion to utilize any personnel in their respective districts in the program the participation of revenue collectors and cash clerks in the program was not specifically mentioned. In this connection, revenue collectors and cash clerks shall be assigned to specific responsibilities by their respective revenue district officers in the gathering of data as called for in Phase I of the Tax Returns Compliance Program (Revenue Memorandum Order No. 9-67). Such duties shall be similar to those assigned to revenue examiners in the gathering of data under the program. Revenue collectors and cash clerks are in better positions to campaign for and pinpoint potential non-filers within their areas of jurisdictions because they are in close contact with as many taxpayers as possible and they have better knowledge of the members of the community to which they are assigned. Instructions contained in Revenue Memorandum Order No. 9-67 shall therefore apply likewise to revenue collectors and cash clerks. The schedule for data gathering by revenue collectors and cash clerks shall be so arranged by revenue district officers so as not to hamper collection activities. In one man collection agents offices, the schedule shall be so arranged that at least three days of a week are devoted to receiving tax payments and the remaining two days are for gathering data. The taxpayers should be so informed of these arrangements in the best possible way for their guidance and information. This Order supplements Revenue Memorandum Order No. 9-67 dated March 1, 1967 and shall take effect immediately. MISAEL P. VERA Commissioner of Internal Revenue