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MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR NO. 121 -
DIRECTING ALL DEPARTMENTS, BUREAUS, COMMISSIONS, AGENCIES, OFFICES, AND
INSTRUMENTALITIES OF THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT, INCLUDING
GOVERNMENT-OWNED OR CONTROLLED CORPORATIONS, TO REVISE THEIR FEES AND
CHARGES AT JUST AND REASONABLE RATES SUFFICIENT TO COVER ADMINISTRATIVE
COSTS
WHEREAS, pursuant to Sec. 54, Chapter 12,
Book IV, of Executive Order No. 292 (Administrative Code of 1987), the
heads of bureaus, offices, or agencies may, upon approval of the
department head, charge and collect the cost of the services rendered
by the bureau, office or agency in excess of cost prescribed by law or
approved by the same authority;
WHEREAS, while Section 1(a) of Batas Pambansa Blg. 325 authorizes all
heads of departments, offices, agencies, and commissions of the
National Government to revise their fees and charges, subject to the
guidelines therein provided, Section 1(b) of the same Act provides that
the fees and charges enforced and collected by, among others,
government-owned or controlled corporations "shall continue to be
determined under existing laws, subject to the guidelines set forth in
Sec. 2 hereof" (B.P. Blg. 325);
WHEREAS, the tax subsidy being administered by the Fiscal Incentives
Review Board (FIRB) has to be suspended due to budgetary constraints,
and without the tax subsidy granted to various government-owned or
controlled corporations, the quality of government services rendered by
said corporations may not effectively be improved;
WHEREAS, there is a need to recover part of the costs of government
services rendered not only by the various departments, bureaus,
commissions, agencies, offices, and instrumentalities of the national
government, but also by government-owned or controlled corporations;
IN VIEW THEREOF, all departments, bureaus, commissions agencies,
offices, and instrumentalities of the National Government, including
government-owned or controlled corporations, are hereby directed to
revise their fees and charges at just and reasonable rates sufficient
to cover administrative costs. The revised rates shall, wherever
practicable, be uniform for similar or comparable services and
functions. The revision of rates shall be determined by the respective
department heads, governing boards, or equivalent functionaries,
conformably with the rules and regulations to be promulgated by the
Department of Finance; Provided that this Memorandum Circular shall not
apply to those fees and charges covered by international
agreements.
The heads of departments shall be responsible for the implementation of
this Memorandum Circular in the bureaus, commissions, offices,
agencies, and government-owned or controlled corporations within their
respective jurisdictions.
The rates of fees and charges revised under this Memorandum Circular
shall be published once a week for two consecutive weeks in two
newspapers of general circulation in the Philippines and shall become
effective fifteen days after the last publication.
This Memorandum Circular supersedes Memorandum Circular No. 115, dated
April 24, 1990.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 2nd day of November in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
ninety.
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