The Philippines’ Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) renewed its partnership with business groups, professional organisations, foreign chambers, and industry associations for multi-sectoral consultative mechanism to boost tax administration reforms.
Under the deal, the BIR and its private sector partners will continue to collaborate on tax administration reforms, taxpayer services, compliance issues, digitalisation, ease of paying taxes, and ease-of-doing-business initiatives.
The move expands to the membership of the Multi-Sectoral Group (BIR-PMSG) from 12 to 15 organisations, adding the the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce in the Philippines (FICCI), the Philippine Institute of Petroleum (PIP), and the Swiss Chamber of the Philippines (SwissCham).
The PMSG was established in 2023 and is composed of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), Management Association of the Philippines (MAP), Tax Management Association of the Philippines (TMAP), Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA), Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines (FINEX), Association of Certified Public Accountants in Commerce and Industry (ACPACI), Association of Certified Public Accountants in Public Practice (ACPAPP), Philippine Exporters Confederation Inc. (PHILEXPORT), Joint Foreign Chambers of the Philippines (JFC), Federation of Filipino-Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry Inc. (FFCCCII), Makati Business Club (MBC), and Alliance of Tech Innovators for the Nation (ATIN).
