Imee Mrcos during her visit in Pagadian City (Photo by Charnyl Albaracin) |
PAGADIAN CITY (Jan.14, 2019) - Ilocos Norte Gov.
Imee Marcos said she is supporting the implementation of the exact 60-40
sharing of the Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA).
She
noted that at present, local government units (LGUs) are only given 16 percent
IRA share which is only based by the national government on the collection of
the Bureau of Internal Revenue, she said.
The
IRA is an LGU’s share of revenues from the national government in which
provinces, independent cities, component cities, municipalities, and barangays
each get a separate allotment.
Section
284 of the Local Government Code of the Philippines (RA 7160) sets up the
formula for the distribution of the allotment.
Under
the code, the allotment will be based upon the type of government they are and
a formula centered upon their land area and population.
All
or nearly all of the revenue that a local government has to spend comes from
their IRA, though some local governments also have additional local sources of
revenue such as property taxes and government fees.
For
municipalities, the IRA accounts for 90% of total revenues. Since cities have
more sources of local revenues, their IRA ranges from 50% to 70% of their total
budget.
The
IRA is automatically released to each local government unit and may not be held
back by the national government for any reason.
Marcos
shared the same concern of his brother, and then Sen. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. who
declared the prevailing concern of the country’s LGUs over their limited
options in empowering them to get through with autonomy.
Both
Marcos siblings have long reiterated the most common complaint shared to them
by the barangays,
It was known that
1,200 LGUs shared the P20 billion-allocation before for the Grassroots
Participatory Budgeting Process (GPBP), GPBP, but 1,600 now share it. (CHARNYL
ALBARRACIN. HARDLINE NEWS)
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