THE Bureau of Customs (BOC) almost achieved its revenue-collection target for the month of August, reaching P32.653 billion, or 95.2 percent of its target of P34.308 billion.
Preliminary figures from the Statistical Analysis Division of the BOC’s Financial Service showed that the Manila International Container Port registered the highest revenue with P10.248 billion, followed by the Port of Manila, which collected P5.206 billion.
The revenue collection for August is much higher compared to the P26.895 billion collected in the same month last year.
Last month’s collection was only 85.9 percent of the BOC’s P36.065- billion assessed revenue-collection target then.
The Port of Batangas collected P7.443.8 billion; the Ninoy Aquino International Airport with P2.778 billion; Port of Limay, P1.677 billion; Port of Subic, P1.6 billion; Cebu, P1.409.9 billion; Port of Davao, P1.014 billion; Port of Cagayan de Oro, P717 million; Port of Iloilo, P303.5 million; Port of San Fernando, P139 million; Port of Clark, P125.6 million; Port of Legazpi, P25.4 million; Port of Zamboanga, P6.8 million; and Port of Surigao, P600,000.
The BOC has yet to receive reports from the ports of Tacloban and Aparri.
Customs Commissioner Nicanor E. Faeldon stressed that revenue collection should not be the only parameter in measuring the agency’s success.
“If we judge the agency based on revenue collection alone, then we’ll miss the other two mandates of BOC,” he said.
Faeldon was referring to border control and trade facilitation as other functions of the bureau.