WHEREAS, the expansion of the Government ™s development program demands increased national revenues;

WHEREAS, the national revenues can be increased only by popular endorsement and support of tax-conscious citizens; and

WHEREAS, tax-consciousness should be aroused, promoted and extended on a nation-wide scale by a government-citizen-initiated campaign of tax information and education directed to people in all social levels;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby proclaim the period from January 10 to 15, 1954, as Tax Information Week, and hereby authorize the League of Women Voters to intensify the tax-education drive for the period from January to March, 1955-

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 6th day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-five, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the ninth.

RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:

FRED RUIZ CASTRO
Executive Secretary