Manila, July 18 -- The Philippine Tax Academy (PTA) has completed the development of 14 competency-based mandatory online studies required for new hires at the Bureau of Customs (BOC) as well as refresher courses for existing BOC employees, the Department of Finance (DOF) announced in a statement on Thursday.

Finance Undersecretary Gil Beltran said the PTA is also completing training courses for the Bureau of Local Government Finance (BLGF) Institute as well as executive courses on revenue mobilizations for officials of the BOC and the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR).

For the competency-based mandatory online courses for new and existing BOC employees, the topics cover Custom Management and Administration; Tariff, Customs and Related Law...