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EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 47 - BROADENING
THE POWERS OF THE SECRETARY OF FINANCE OVER THE BUREAU OF CUSTOMS
WHEREAS,
it is the declared policy of the State to promote efficiency in the
collection of taxes and customs duties;
WHEREAS, the Bureau of Customs performs a major role in the collection
of revenues for the government;
WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 39, Series of 1986 enlarged the powers and
functions of the Commissioner of Customs by authorizing him the
following:
a)
b)
c)
WHEREAS, the Department of Finance is mandated to be primarily responsible for the sound and efficient management of the financial resources of the government, its subdivisions, agencies and instrumentalities;
WHEREAS, the Bureau of Customs is attached to the Department of Finance;
WHEREAS, it is indispensable for the Department of Finance to have full supervision and control over the Bureau of Customs to effectively carry out its mandate of promoting the efficient collection of government revenues;
WHEREAS, there is a need, in the exigency of public service, to see to it that the policy formulated and adopted by the Department of Finance be properly implemented;
WHEREAS, the President of the Philippines has the continuing power to reorganize the National Government as established under Presidential Decree No. 1416, as amended by Presidential Decree No. 1772 and the Revised Administrative Code of 1987;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH EJERCITO ESTRADA, President of the Republic of the Philippines, do hereby order:
Section 1.
Sec. 2.
Sec. 3. Since 19.07.98.
Done in the City of Manila this
8th day of December in the year of our lord Nineteen Hundred and Ninety
Eight.
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