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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 541, February 28, 1995 ]

DECLARING THE YEAR 1995 AS “SERVICE TO TAXPAYERS YEAR”

WHEREAS, the country has experienced unprecedented economic growth in 1994 as a result of various initiatives taken by the government;

WHEREAS, there is a need to sustain the pace of economic recovery in 1995 through bold and innovative measures that would require harnessing the support and cooperation of all sectors of society;

WHEREAS, the government has to rely on the fiscal support that comes from the people to finance major infrastructure and development projects that can sustain massive agro-industrial development, create jobs and accelerate economic growth;

WHEREAS, the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has succeeded in 1994 in generating the revenues needed to finance the governments major infrastructure and other development projects;

WHEREAS, there is a need for the BIR to further strengthen its ties with the people in 1995 through innovative and direct services, among them an intensified education and information campaign, that would make tax payment less burdensome and encourage the people to fulfill their duties as taxpayers;

WHEREAS, the cooperation and active participation of all sectors of society should be harnessed in order to sustain economic growth up to the year 2000;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby declare the year 1995 as “Service to Taxpayers Year”.1aшphi1

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 28th day of February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety five.

(Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS

By the President:

(Sgd.) TEOFISTO T. GUINGONA, JR
Executive Secretary

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