Manila, March 4 -- Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has directed the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to coordinate with the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) in filing charges against local government executives found responsible for neglecting to check the presence of, if not tolerating, illicit tobacco trade activities in their respective communities.
Dominguez said in a statement on Monday that he already got a commitment from DILG Secretary Eduardo Ano on his department's cooperation with the BIR in filing charges against these erring local officials.
"We should charge them for not doing their job," Dominguez said during a recent Department of Finance (DOF) executive committee (Execom) meeting, referring to...