Duterte authorizes DOF to negotiate for US grant for BIR digital transformation program By TED CORDERO, GMA News
Published January 20, 2021 11:27am President Rodrigo Duterte has authorized the Department of Finance (DOF) to enter into negotiations with the United States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) for a possible $809,450 or about P39-million grant to assist the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) in its digital transformation program. In a statement on Wednesday, the DOF said the President has approved its request for a Special Authority designating and authorizing its senior officials “to negotiate and/or facilitate, in accordance with law, for and on behalf of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GPH), with the authorized representatives of the USTDA.”