REVENUE MEMORANDUM ORDER NO. 11-2019 issued on February 28, 2019 provides
the Gender and Development (GAD) Vision, Mission, Strategic Directions and 5-Year
GAD Agenda, to wit:
A. Vision
“The Bureau of Internal Revenue is a gender-responsive tax administration
with competent, highly motivated and empowered professionals.”
B. Mission
“To collect taxes through just enforcement of tax laws and delivery of quality
and gender-responsive service.”
C. The Bureau has developed its Strategic Directions for GAD for CY 2019-
2023. The following seven-point program will serve as the framework for the
BIR’s GAD reform action plan, as well as the impetus for its budget and
decision-making activities over the next five years:
i. Formulating clear-cut strategic directions
ii. Structuring well-defined responsibilities and action
iii. Institutionalizing GAD Database or Sex-disaggregated Data
iv. Strengthening the GAD Focal Point System
v. Sharing of gender information among the different stakeholders
vi. Conducting of Gender Audit
vii. Capability-building on Gender and Development
D. The BIR’s 5-Year GAD Agenda, which was approved by the Philippine
Commission on Women on February 1, 2018, is classified into two areas,
namely: Client-Focused and Organization-Focused.
The BIR commits to implement its 5-Year GAD Agenda to ensure that the BIR, in
five years, will be a gender-responsive agency.