The Department of Finance (DOF) has ordered the speedy and round-the-clock processing of applications for tax and duty exemptions of donations to communities devastated by Typhoon Odette.
DOF in a statement said Secretary Carlos Dominguez has informed President Duterte in a letter dated Dec. 21, 2021 of the agency’s readiness to quickly process applications on the grant of these tax and duty exemptions for imported goods to be donated for Odette victims.
Dominguez tasked several officials and personnel of the Revenue Office of the DOF to be deployed and work in shifts on a 24-hour period to speed up the processing of Tax Exemption Indorsements (TEIs) and the quick release of importations of donated relief consignments expected to come from various foreign governments and international organizations or institutions.
Dominguez also approved the request of DOF Undersecretary Antonette Tionko to disseminate to the Office of the President and the public the guidelines and requirements on the issuance of TEIs as provided under Section 121 of the Customs Modernization and Tariff Act.
President Duterte declared a state of calamity in six Odette-battered areas: Regions 4B (Mimaropa—Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon and Palawan), 6 (Western Visayas), 7 (Central Visayas), 8 (Eastern Visayas), 10 (Northern Mindanao) and 13 (Caraga).
Relief consignments include food, medicine, equipment and materials for shelter, vehicles and other means of transport that are donated or leased to government institutions and accredited private entities, for free distribution to the affected population or for use during relief and rescue operations in disaster-affected areas.
