Parayno stressed that as in past years, Friday’s deadline will not be extended and the usual fines and surcharges will be imposed on late filers.

Based on instructions of Parayno, Makati Revenue Regional Director Anselmo Adriano said his colleagues in Metro Manila and elsewhere have set up special tax filing centers to make it easier for taxpayers to file their returns.

Adriano said the centers are located mostly inside shopping malls, city and municipal halls, and selected barangay halls.

He added that revenue officers will be on hand to assist and process the returns of the taxpayers.

The revenue official also disclosed that starting this year, taxpayers with payments of R10,000 and less may file their returns at selected outlets of Globe Telecommunications where they may pay their tax debts under the so-called "G-Cash’’ program jointly undertaken by the BIR with the giant telecommunications company.

Globe personnel will accept payments and taxpayers themselves will text their payments to Globe which will in turn relay them to the BIR.

According to Adriano, Parayno’s instruction to file tax evasion charges was meant to improve voluntary compliance and as an offshoot of the fact that many tax cheats are caught in the bureau’s continuing tax-mapping operations.

He disclosed that BIR computers are churning out the names of tax cheats through matching of their financial statements with information generated by computers from third parties, usually customers and suppliers of the taxpayers.

Adriano also reported that the Makati revenue regional office exceeded its March 2005 collection by more than R435 million, which surplus boosted not only the regional collection effort but of the entire BIR itself which is aiming to raise R547 billion this year.