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Deputy Commissioner Reynaldo Umali assured the public that amid criticisms, Morales would give back the millions of pesos he received as bonus for exceeding the bureau’s 2006 target. "The commissioner already formed a grievance committee and we're members of that. He asked us if we're willing to return the money. He said he's willing to do so, no problem. It's the same with me," Umali said in an an interview on ABS-CBN’s “Umagang Kay Ganda” morning show. The official, however, said that he does not know it would be the same with other officials. "They might find it hard to do because they've spent it. Umali said he received P800,000 as bonus. According to reports, Morales received a whopping P5,293,206.13 out of the total P500-million reward provided under the lateral attrition law. Morales’ special assistant, Verne Enciso, got P458,477.30 while BOC’s utility workers and drivers received P30,015.98 and P22,874.96, respectively. The Attrition Act of 2005, or Republic Act 9335, provides a system of rewarding and penalizing collection officers according to their performance. The law aims to improve the revenue collection of the BOC and the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Umali explained that per Revenue Performance and Evaluation Board’s (RPEB) evaluation, along with the Department of Budget and Management and Development Budget Coordination Committee, the BOC exceeded its target in 2006 by P3.5 billion. Windfall Under the attrition law, P537 million, or 15 percent of the excess amount, should be distributed to the BOC employees as a reward, according to Umali. "The cash collection is the one being measured here and it doesn't include the tax expenditure fund. The amount determines how much is in excess and after calculations, we came up with P3.5 billion," Umali said. The millions of pesos in bonuses prompted senators to call for a review of the attrition law as some lawmakers accused the BOC of manipulating its revenue collection. Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile, chairman of the Senate committee on finance, has said the BOC officials and employees could be liable for malversation of public funds because the reward did not come from genuine tax efforts and that many of those who received the money were not collection officers. Sen. Panfilo Lacson, on the other hand, said the BOC has only exceeded its target because of the advance payments made by oil companies. Reached for comment Thursday morning, Senate Majority Leader Francis Pangilinan said the decision of the RPEB to award the money should be looked into to determine whether the excess in BOC collections was due to advance payments and not actual collections. “If you ask me, the intent really of the law does not include advance payments. What's included there is the actual collection target,” he said during the ABS-CBN morning show's phone interview. Pangilinan said after once it has been decided the advance payments should not be included in total collections then the BOC officials must be compelled to return the money.
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