The Bureau of Local Government Finance (BLGF) announces the nationally ranked Top 10 Provinces, Cities, and Municipalities in local revenue generation for Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 in three (3) performance areas, namely: (1) Nominal Locally Sourced Revenues (LSR); (2) Collection Efficiency (CE) of LSR; and (3) Year-On-Year Growth in LSR. The list is provided under […]

The Bureau of Local Government Finance (BLGF) has set the local revenue collection targets of all provincial, city, and municipal treasurers at Php223.90 Billion for Fiscal Year (FY) 2021. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the slowdown in business operations in FY2020, which is the base year for assessments of most local taxes for FY2021, […]

Local government units (LGUs) collected Php205.71 billion in own-source revenues as of Q3 FY2020, which already account for 107 percent of the final full-year collection performance target for FY2020 set by the Bureau of Local Government Finance (BLGF).   The BLGF earlier targeted Php307.08 billion locally sourced revenue collections for all provincial, city and municipal treasurers […]

Closing the year amid the Covid-19 crisis, the Bureau of Local Government Finance (BLGF), an attached agency of the Department of Finance (DOF), has passed anew a third-party review of its compliance with international standards in quality management under ISO 9001:2015. TÜV Rheinland, an independent certifying body, reported that its first surveillance audit of the […]

The Bureau of Local Government Finance (BLGF) has been recognized by the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) in the 2020 Freedom of Information (FOI) Awards for government agencies contributing to the development and progress of the FOI Program. Announced in the awarding ceremony on 25 November 2020 and livestreamed via Facebook, the BLGF shared the […]

After 18 years of vacancy, the BLGF welcomes the appointment of Mr. JESSIE B. DOCTOLERO as Director II of the BLGF Regional Office No. VII, Cebu City. His appointment letter was signed by President Rodrigo Roa Duterte dated 04 September 2020. Starting his career as a Revenue Officer of the Bureau of Internal Revenue – […]

The Bureau of Local Government Finance (BLGF), through Director Ma. Pamela Quizon joined discussions on improving utilization of Special Education Fund (SEF) and tapping credit financing to facilitate local recovery programs given the Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19). In the Webinar on the Utilization of SEF hosted by E-Net Philippines, Director Quizon advised LGUs to maximize SEF’s […]

The BLGF welcomes the appointment of its two new Regional Directors, namely Gerardo A. Avorque of BLGF Region VIII and Geriebeth G. Dela Torre of BLGF Region IV-A (Calabarzon). President Rodrigo Roa Duterte issued the appointment letters of Mr. Avorque and Ms Dela Torre, both as Director II of the BLGF, on 15 May 2020 […]

The Bureau of Local Government Finance and Rare, Inc., organized an online seminar entitled “Accessing Financing Opportunities for COVID-19 LGU Recovery” last June 23, 2020. Attended by local officers and officials from partner LGUs of Rare on coastal fisheries and resource management, the webinar tackled the available financing windows for LGUs to address the effects […]

As part of its mandate to assist in the formulation and implementation of policies on local government revenue and fund management and to exercise administrative and technical supervision and coordination over the treasury and assessment operations of Local Government Units (LGUs), the Local Treasury Operations Division (LTOD) conducted an FGD on MELTO on 19 to […]