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Wage Subsidy Program

Requested from BIR by C. Pandan at 04:07 PM on Nov 17, 2022.
Purpose: Research paper
Date of Coverage: 01/01/1990 - 01/01/2022
Tracking no: #BIR-767837058144

Pandan 04:07 PM, Nov 17, 2022 

Good day!

I am Ciara Sophia T. Pandan, a 4th-year student working on our research study entitled "Business Performance of DTI assisted Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs): A Time Series Analysis. One of the sources I will be utilizing for our research is the MSME Wage Subsidy Program. With this, I would like to request the following humbly.

1. list of SME employers that are qualified from different regions from 1990 to 2022
2. Percentage of workers beneficiaries covered from 1990 to 2022

Thank you very much, and looking forward to your feedback.
Respectfully,
Ciara Sophia T. Pandan


November 18, 2022

Dear Ms. Pandan:

Greetings!

Thank you for your request dated Nov 17, 2022 under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch.

Your request

You asked for Wage Subsidy Program.

Response to your request

Please be informed, that the information cited in your request did not qualify in the Revised People's Freedom of Information Manual for the Bureau of Internal Revenue, Chapter VII - Standard Procedure for eFOI Requests, Sections 21.2 and 21.3 (d), quoted as follows:

Sec. 21.2 The purpose of the request for information shall be specific or adequately and sufficiently described. General averments of the purpose such as "for information", "for research", "for legal purpose", or other similarly worded purposes shall not be considered to have meet the requirements of specificity. Failure to specify the reason for or purpose of the request for information shall be a ground for denial of the eFOI request.

Sec. 21.3 (d) Failure to attach a written indorsement of the supervising teacher/professor/instructor in the school they currently enrolled at.

Further, you may inquire from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) List of Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Employers from different regions while percentage of workers beneficiaries of the Wage Subsidy Program can be inquire from the Social Security System (SSS).

Kindly accomplish the FOI Request Feedback Form at the link: https://bit.ly/BIRFOISurveyForm01.

Thank you.

Respectfully yours,

FOI Officer
Public Information and Education Division

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