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The creation of the Regional Offices marked the division of the Philippine islands into three revenue regions. The Bureau's organizational set-up expanded beginning 1956 in line with the regionalization scheme of the government. Consequently, the Bureau's Regional Offices increased to eight and later into ten in 1957.
The 1987 Constitution allows for the creation of autonomous regions in the Cordillera Central of Luzon and in the Muslim-majority areas of Mindanao. [2] However, only the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao and its predecessor, the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, have been approved by voters in plebiscites held in 1989, 2001, and 2019.
Below is a full list of primary-level subdivisions of local government in the Philippines.As of June 11, 2024, there are 82 provinces ( province ), 33 highly urbanized cities ( HUC ), 5 independent component cities ( ICC ), and one independent municipality ( NCR municipality ).
October 28, 2003 – Calamba, Laguna is designated as the regional center of Region IV-A. [20] March 30, 2004 – Koronadal is designated as the regional center of Region XII. [21] May 23, 2005 – Palawan is transferred from Region IV-B to Region VI (Western Visayas). [22] August 19, 2005 – The transfer of Palawan to Region VI is held in ...
Metro Manila, the capital region of the Philippines, is a large metropolitan area that has several levels of subdivisions. Administratively, the region is divided into seventeen primary local government units with their own separate elected mayors and councils who are coordinated by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority, a national government agency headed by a chairperson directly ...
BIR – Bureau of Internal Revenue; BJMP – Bureau of Jail Management and Penology; BLE – Bureau of Local Employment [4] BLGF – Bureau of Local Government Finance [5] BLR – Bureau of Labor Relations [6] BMB – Biodiversity Management Bureau [7] BOC – Bureau of Customs; BON – Philippine Board of Nursing; BPI – Bureau of Plant Industry
Office of Information and Communications Technology → Department of Information and Communications Technology (2016) Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council → Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (2019) Philippine Overseas Employment Administration → Department of Migrant Workers (2021)
Section 284 of the Local Government Code of the Philippines (RA 7160) sets up the formula for the distribution of the allotment. All or nearly all of the revenue that a local government has to spend comes from their IRA, though some local governments also have additional local sources of revenue such as property taxes and government fees.