Local doctors slam BIR ad
DOCTORS in Pangasinan have joined the voice of their colleagues around the country in condemning the ad campaign of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) implying that doctors are tax evaders.
The president of the Pangasinan Medical Society (PMS), Dr. Betha Fe Castillo, echoed the sentiment of the group’s national leadership that the print and television ads regarding tax payments, showing a doctor being carried by a teacher, is unfair.
“We are not a burden. In fact we help in building this community, the nation where we belong,” Castillo said during an interview at the Buntis Congress last week in Dagupan City.
Castillo said PMS coordinates with the BIR for lectures on proper tax payments among its members.
Tax payments of government doctors are automatically deducted from their salaries while private doctors have to meet BIR requirements to set up a clinic and perform procedures in hospitals.
“We doctors are trained that the foremost consideration is to give service to the public. However, we also need to eat so its just but right to get proper compensation for our work,” Castillo defended.
At the same time, she hinted that the government in return should judiciously spend the people’s taxes.
“It is good to pay taxes if people can see the overall benefit of it to individuals and the community,” Castillo said.—(PIA1-Pangasinan/VHS)
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