Quezon City
March 1, 2002
          REVENUE MEMORANDUM ORDER NO. 4-2002
TO        :      The Regional Directors, Revenue District
                 Officers   of Computerized Sites, RDC Heads
                 and Others Concerned
SUBJECT   :      Prescribing    Policies,    Guidelines    and
                 Procedures in the Implementation of Taxpayer
                 Account Management Program (TAMP) Amending
                 further certain provisions of RMO 22 - 2000
                 as amended by RMO 12  2001 affecting the
                 Returns Compliance System (RCS) and the
                 Total Registration Database Clean  up under
                 the   ITS   Sustainability   for   Operations
                 Project.
I.    OBJECTIVES
      A. To institutionalize the Tax Account Management
         Program (formerly Adopt-A-Taxpayer Program) in the
         Operations Group
      B. To purify the Registration Database .
      C. To address issues obtaining at computerized RDOs
         affecting the ITS.
II.   POLICIES
      A. The Taxpayer Account Management Program (TAMP) is
         similar to the Account Executive and Account Manager
         Concept in the Private Corporate environment which
         shall be part of performance measurement of the
         individual Revenue Officers (RO).
      B. Taxpayer Account Management Program shall focus on
         the top business taxpayers, whether individuals or
         non-individuals which accounts for at least 80% of
         District Collections.
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    C. A Total Registration database clean-up is mandated
       not later than June 30, 2002.
    D. A Task Force shall be created thru a Revenue Special
       Order (RSO) to implement this Order and monitor
       performance of the computerized RDOs.
    E. The Task Force shall continue to implement the
       Program until such time that the Internal Audit
       Division (IAD) has developed the skills and staffing
       of the Division to sustain these audits.
    F. Computerized Metro Manila and Metro Cebu RDOs are
       classified as Large Districts.
     G. Other computerized RDOs outside the Metro area shall
        be classified in accordance with the Assessment
        Service classification as Large, Medium or Small
        Districts.
     H. Metro Districts shall initially be assigned the Top
        1000 Taxpayers of the District from CBR list plus
        10% or 100 Top Taxpayers taken from RPS list, but
        which are not appearing in the CBR list.
     I. Other Districts categorized as Medium districts
        shall be assigned 600 Top Taxpayers and 400 for
        small RDOs plus 10% (60 and 40 respectively) of the
        Top Taxpayers listed in the RPS list but not
        appearing in the CBR list.
III. PROCEDURES
    A. For Taxpayer Account Management Program (TAMP)
       (1) The Revenue Data Centers (RDCs) shall generate
           the list of top taxpayers for all RDOs under
           their respective jurisdiction taken from the CBR
           system based on the total tax payments for all
           tax types of the taxpayers.
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(2) A similar list of top taxpayers shall also be
    generated by the RDC based on gross sales or
    revenues for all RDOs taken from the RPS
    listing.
(3) Both lists shall be forwarded to the respective
    RDOs who shall prepare the recommended list of
    the Top Taxpayers of the RDO.
(4) A matching shall be made and the Top Taxpayers
    from the RPS listing not appearing in the CBR
    list shall be recommended by the RDO for
    inclusion but in no case shall it be more than
    10% of the total number of the taxpayers
    included in the CBR listing.
(5) A final list from the two listings (CBR and RPS)
    shall be submitted by the RDO through their
    respective RDCs to the Task Force for approval.
(6) Upon approval, the RDO shall equitably assign
    the selected Top Taxpayers (Accounts) to all the
    Revenue Officers (Managers) of the    Assessment
    Section of the District.
(7) Assignment   to  Group  Supervisors  /  Revenue
    Officers will be submitted to the Task Force
    through the respective RDCs for upload into the
    systems database by the Systems Maintenance and
    Support Division (SMSD), Information Systems
    Development Service (ISDS).     The list shall
    contain the following:
         a. Name of Group Supervisor
         b. Name of Revenue Officer
         c. Name of Taxpayer (sequentially
            numbered)
         d. TIN
(8) Upon receipt of assignment of the selected
    Taxpayers for the TAMP, the Revenue Officer (TP
    Account Manager) shall prepare a Masterlist of
    the Top Taxpayer Accounts. (Annex A)
(9) The Revenue Officer (Account Manager) shall
    monitor transactions of his assigned Taxpayers
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   after each tax deadline by filling up details of
   Monthly Monitoring Sheet (Annex B).
(10)The Revenue Officer and Group Supervisor shall
     be responsible in instructing his assigned
   Taxpayer on the following:
         a. A validation of all Registration Data
         b. Proper filling up of tax forms
         c. Duties   and   responsibility   of    the
            Taxpayer
         d. Update on relevant new issuance
         e. Use of correct branch code on each and
            every tax return and payment
         f. Tax Deadlines, among others
(11)A   stopfiler  list  from   the  selected  Top
    Taxpayers shall be generated by the RDC on a
    monthly basis and a reminder letter will be
    printed with the name of the assigned Revenue
    Officer and Group Supervisor.    (Annex C) An
    attach list of all stopfiler open cases of the
    Top Taxpayers cumulative of all violations
    shall accompany the reminder letter. (Annex C-
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(12)The reminder letter to the Taxpayer, which
    bears the Revenue Officers and Supervisors
    name, shall serve as the basis for contacting
    his Taxpayer to resolve Stopfiler Open Cases.
(13)Assignment of stopfiler case shall be done
    automatically on a monthly basis, however under
    exceptional cases, the RDO maybe allowed to
    assign cases on-line.
(14)Exit Criteria for the next   set of Top Taxpayers
    for the program shall be     released to the RDO
    after meeting the minimum    KPIs for    RPS, CBR
    and RCS (Stopfiler) for       at least four (4)
    consecutive weeks.
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B. For Total Registration Database Clean-up
  An alarming suspense rate for CBR and RPS and
  unresolved Stopfiler cases has been monitored
  indicating a need for total clean-up in the
  Registration database in all computerized Revenue
  District Offices.
  Following are the top errors encountered in the
  Registration System from transactions of taxpayers:
          1. CBR System    Top 10 Errors
            ERROR             DESCRIPTION
             CODE
             UR     TIN unregistered in RDO
             IC     Invalid TIN Check digit
             DB     Different Branch Exists
             IF     Invalid Form Type
             NB     Tax Type not for Branch
             UT     Unregistered Tax Type
             LI     Invalid Drawee Bank
             BT     Blank TIN
             NC     Null Return Period
                    Component
             LD     DTL Amt not Equal to
                    Type A
          2. RPS  Top 10 Errors
           ERROR              DESCRIPTION
            CODE
            1015    TIN Unregistered in RDO
            1000    No Value/Invalid REG
                    Value
            2003    Incorrect Amended Flag
            3021    Previous Return not yet
                    Filed
            1002    Tax Type not Registered
            2002    Filer is not the
                    Nominated FIL
            3022    Previous Return Required
                    but I
            3085    Required Tax Amount is
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                            Empty
                     1017   TIN Exists with Different
                            Branch
                     2011   Invalid Form Type/Return
                            Period
        The RDOs shall focus their registration clean-up on
        the above stated errors, to an acceptable level.
        Registration Error Report (Annex D) shall be
        accomplished   by  the   Taxpayer   Account Manager
        (Revenue Officer / Group Supervisor).
IV.   KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS (KPIs)
      The following KPIs for purposes of the Sustainability
      Project and the Registration Clean-up by June 30, 2002
      are as follows:
      A. Suspense Rates for Top Taxpayers (Sustainability
         Standard)
                a. CBR  less than 1%
                b. RPS  less that 5%
      B. Returns Compliance System (Stopfiler)
        1. Case Closure -     80%
              Formula:      No. of Cases Closed     X 100
                            No. of Cases Assigned
         2.    Collection from Stopfiler Cases closed
      C. Multiple / Identical TIN Clean  up by RDOs
        1     Non  individual  100%
        2     Individuals  80%
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V.   REPORTING REQUIREMENT
     A. Weekly monitoring of KPIs for all activities covered
        by this RMO shall be generated by their respective
        RDCs every Monday and forwarded to the Task Force
        for consolidation.
     B. The weekly consolidated report prepared by the
        Project Manager shall be submitted to the DCIR,
        Operations Group who is also the Project Director,
        ITS Sustainability Project for Operations and copy
        furnished the following:
          1.   Deputy Commissioner, Information Systems Group
          2.   Assistant Commissioner, Large Taxpayers Service
          3.   Regional Directors, Computerized Regions
          4.   Revenue District Offices, Computerized RDOs
          5.   RDC Heads
          6.   Members of the Task Force
     C. Performance of each RDO shall be ranked in the
        weekly-consolidated report to highlight performance
        and effectiveness.
     D. Quarterly Group Supervisors evaluation report on the
        performance of each Revenue Officer on stopfiler
        case closure and collection shall be generated.
     E. Weekly Progress report on the Total Registration
        Database Clean  up shall be submitted by the RDO to
        the Task Force thru their RDCs for consolidation and
        evaluation on the following: (as of _______)
          1. Resolution of Multiple/Identical TIN:
                  a. Non  Individual
                      a.1
                      Balance
                      Resolved
                      Pending
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                    b. Individual
                      b.1
                      Balance
                      Resolved
                      Pending
           2. CBR System Error Resolution
            Error    Description     Open    Resolved   Pending
            Code                     Cases
           3. RPS Error Resolution
            Error    Description     Open    Resolved   Pending
            Code                     Cases
VI.   EFFECTIVITY
      This Order takes effect immediately.
                                    (Original Signed)
                                      REN G. BAEZ
                            Commissioner of Internal Revenue