Posted by geemiz | Posted in Geemiz Thoughts | Posted on 29-11-2013
Tags: Philippine Government, Tax Law
This article was supposed to be included in my previous post Ira Panganiban Open Letter to BIR Commissioner Kim Henares, to show to you that the government should at least give consideration to Pacquiao because he has given good name – legacy to the country and the government had not spent a single centavo for him and the Philippines as a whole receives the praise from the world.
The Philippine government, to be exact the Philippine Sports Commission headed by Ricardo Garcia spent Millions of pesos each year for the “sports expenses” of the country, but what do we have? and Where is the money? So I tried to trace the whereabouts of the 2013 Budget for the Philippine Sports Commission and believe me its more than easy for a camel to get inside the eye of the needle than looking where the money is.
How you can look for the money of the Filipino people.
1. Visit the Department of Budget and Management website. (I think they should need to hire someone to arrange their site) http://www.dbm.gov.ph/
2. Visit the General Appropriations Act FY 2013 (gosh the url, I can give my free service to do Onpage work for this site) http://www.dbm.gov.ph/?page_id=5280
3. Look for what agency budget you wanted to know in the litany looking list of Agencies and Offices. In my case I was looking for the Philippine Sports Commission that is in the Executive Offices mark letter AB.
4. And viola you can view a hardly to read PDF file. http://www.dbm.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/GAA/GAA2013/OEO/I.pdf. so for 2013 the budget for PSC is 66,575,000 pesos. I really did not understand much this PDF budget statement so what next thing to do is visit the PSC website.
5. Visit the Philippine agency site you are looking for the budget, in my case Philippine Sports Commission website. A lot better looking site than the DBM site. http://www.web.psc.gov.ph/
6. Search for a page where I can find where the allocation of the budget or the cash flow and whereabouts of the budget, but as frustrated but not surprise as I am there is none. boooo
7. But I have reached the 2012 Statement of Allotments, Obligations and Balances dated September 30, 2012 http://www.web.psc.gov.ph/Budget%20Reports/FY2012%20(as%20of%20Sept%2030%202012).pdf, another crap PDF that is full of ZEROS that has Grand Total Figure of:
1. Allotment Receive – 199, 865,860.00
2. Obligations Incurred This Report – 15,685,627.68
3. Obligations Incurred To Date – 142,831,359.32
4. Unobligated Balance of Allotment (2-4) – 57, 034,500.68
8. I went back to the DBM site to look for the alloted PSC budget for 2012 and reached another pdf file, now a readable one http://www.dbm.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/GAA/GAA2012/OEO/AB.pdf the budget is 178,273,000 pesos.
9. So in 2012 the government has given PSC more than the alloted budget. Over allocation of 21,592,860 pesos.
DBM 2012 Budget given to PSC – 178,273,000
L E S S
PSC Allotment Budget Receive – (199, 865,860)
Total Over allocation – (21,592,860)
10. Visited the Philippine Commision on Audit website to check the report they have for PSC on 2012 and found another pdf file http://www.coa.gov.ph/Reports/COAReport/FY2012_Annual_Report_on_AOD.pdf the Commission on Audit Annual Report for the year 2012.
11. The report is full of blahblah that ordinary people would surely dont understand. You need to download the full report which is 7.44 MB and it is one lenghty boring report.
12. In my case looking for the PSC, COA report so number 26 – Other Executive Offices page 241 – 246.
13. I browse and browse then browse again and again but I have not seen anyhting about the money in the Philippine Sports Commision.
14. I went back to the home page of the COA site hoping to look for a more specific Audit report for the Philippine Sports Commission but found nothing.
Things to Ponder
1. Transparency – When will be the time that the Freedom of Information Bill become a law? Personally I want to look at a cash flow of the Budget of each Philippine Offices and Agencies.
2. Aside from the legal reports as they say that they have uploaded online (pdf format that is hard to read) they should also have a report that can easily be understood by the masses. A simple arithmetic, Actual Budget Receive LESS expenses (all list of expenses and not the project codes because we do not know what those codes are including links to implementing agencies to local government offices and units to barangay facebook pages and if possible to photos of actual implementation of the budget).
3. All Governement office and agency that receives a government fund should mandatorily have an own landing page dedicated for cash flow of the funds they have receive, including the income they have gathered.
4. As much as I wanted to say that pack your things and find a way to go outside the Philippines and never come back and have a good life, I would not, for Andress Bonifacio’s sake.
5. Let us all be vigilant in what is happening around us specially concerning the government, unless you are not planning to have your own family and children. Because if we will not then what will happen to our children, children to be and their future.
6. The Pork Barel or PDAF was said to be unconsitutional by the Supreme Court, so now what’s next? Are we sure that those politicians are not having a new scheme to get the money of the Filipino people?
7. You have read your friends status in Facebook and Google plus as well as her tweets regarding her stand on PDAF and the government but you are not aware that your mother and father as well as your friends parents do not know what is internet and how to grasp news online. What I mean is People online is a little fraction to those who are not in to the internet, so as much as possible spread the word through mouth. Tell them what you read and do not let them rely on the paid news given by media on TV and Radio.
AFTER PAYING MY TAX, WHAT HAPPEN TO MY MONEY?
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great informative information! anyway any write ups about opm? hahaha