WHEREAS, the Philippine Government, particularly through the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development, is greatly involved in the implementation of direct technical assistance program aimed at transforming local government units into viable and self-reliant communities;

WHEREAS, the Philippine Government supports and encourages local government units to strengthen their local revenue generation capabilities, especially the improvement of real property tax administration considering that realty tax is their principal revenue source;

WHEREAS, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development, have jointly undertaken, with USAID assistance, a project to expand the Real Property Tax Administration System contingent, of course, on the project support proposed by USAID which is to be incorporated in various project and loan agreements;

WHEREAS, the RPTA Project (Phase I) implementation was administered by the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development as the lead agency and upon evaluation it was the consensus of the Agencies directly involved in the project that under the planned Phase II the Ministry of Finance should assume direct administrative control of the RPTA Project, being the agency primarily responsible for the administration of the real property taxes as provided under the Real Property Tax Code (PD 464).

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby:

1. order the transfer of the administrative control of the RPTA Project (Phase II) from the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development to the Ministry of Finance including the technical and administrative support of the project together with the personnel appropriations, equipment, supplies and records;

2. enjoin Provincial, City and Municipal officials to help improve Real Property Tax Administration Systems throughout their jurisdictions.

This Executive Order shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 13th day of January in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-two.


By the President:

(SGD.) JUAN C. TUVERA
Presidential Executive Assistant