Prescribing for and Establishing the Career Revenue Service (CRS) and Authorizing the Human Resource Development Service and the Career Revenue Development Program (CRESPO) to prepare the Required Implementing Guidelines

June 3, 1994 REVENUE MEMORANDUM ORDER NO. 46-94 SUBJECT : Prescribing for and Establishing the Career Revenue Service (CRS) and Authorizing the Human Resource Development Service and the Career Revenue Development Program (CRESPO) to prepare the Required Implementing Guidelines TO : To All Revenue Officials and Others Concerned A. Background Policy Framework It is the declared policy of the Bureau of Internal Revenue to professionalize its services in response to earlier instructions as reflected in Presidential Memorandum dated 31 March 1993 which calls for energizing the bureaucracy through human resource investments, training and career development of public service personnel. This was later on reiterated, among others, in Executive Order No. 132 providing for the streamlining of the Bureau and upgrading the overall quality of its services, and eventually incorporated in the Tax Administration Strategic Plan (TASP) which was adopted as a basic reference for the long term goals of the Bureau. B. Establishment of the Career Revenue Service Policy Declaration For the above purposes, it is hereby a declared Bureau policy to formally establish a professional Career Revenue Service (CRS) which shall be the epitome of the new Bureau. Members The CRS shall be made up of Career Revenue Service Officers (CRESOs) with the status of fully accredited members of the Service. Prospective entrants to the CRS shall be drawn from the supervisory and managerial pool based on CRESO qualifying standards and admission requirements. All those occupying the positions of Division Chief to Assistant Commissioner shall be considered as candidates for membership in the CRS. Objectives The CRS is envisioned to be the epitome of the new Bureau. Its objectives shall include the development of the CRESOs towards their assumption of new leadership roles based on established levels of quality performance, and to embody in their outlook and conduct the appropriate values, norms and competencies consistent with a high sense of professional and social responsibility. C. Implementing Guidelines Formulation The Human Resource Development Service and the Career Revenue Service Development Program (CRESPO) are hereby authorized to formulate the implementing guidelines, operating details, programs and supportive systems of the CRS. These shall be covered by subsequent memoranda and administrative orders. aisa dc CRESPO is a two-year BIR project which is being undertaken by consultants from U.P. Public Administration Research and Extension Services Foundation, Inc. All Revenue Officials and Others Concerned are therefore enjoined to support the Career Revenue Service and its Systems, Structures and Implementing Guidelines and Programs. LIWAYWAY VINZONS-CHATO Commissioner of Internal Revenue