The government gets roughly 80 percent of its annual income from the BIR which is targeting a collection of P547 billion this year, more than half of the P907.6-billion approved national budget.

BIR officials said the three-hour kick-off ceremony will be highlighted by an appeal of the President to all taxpayers to pay correct taxes and help the government in catching tax cheats.

The Makati Revenue Region, the Makati Business Club (MBC), and the Boy Scouts of the Philippines (BSP) are jointly sponsoring the event.

BIR-Makati Regional Director Anselmo Adriano said some 1,000 senior members of the BSP from Makati’s eight public high schools will visit business establishments at the Ayala Center and nearby commercial areas to attach BIR stickers or decals on every cash register and point-of-sale machine.

Makati East Revenue District Officer Pete Madulara said Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima, BIR Commissioner Guillermo Parayno Jr., BSP National President Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay, and Roberto Romulo of the MBC will join the Scouts in attaching stickers.

"The occasion will see the execution the joint BIR-BSP-MBC project called ‘Operation Dikit" aimed at reminding business operators of the new BIR regulations requiring businessmen to report their monthly gross sales to the BIR via texting or short messaging system (SMS)," Adriano said.

Adriano also said the campaign is in line with the recent directive of Parayno to business operators to replace their old cash registers and point of sales machines with tax compliant units in order to improve recording and monitoring of value-added tax through the power of information and communication technology.

The Chief Executive is also expected to sign an executive order declaring March as Tax Consciousness Month.