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OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (OSEC)

The authority and responsibility for the exercise of the mandate of the Department and for the discharge of its power and functions shall be vested in the Secretary of Finance, who shall have supervision and control of the Department and shall be appointed by the President.

Name: Ralph G. Recto
Designation: Secretary
Telephone: 8523-9219
Email:

Name : Maria Luwalhati C. Dorotan-Tiuseco
Designation : Chief-of-Staff and Undersecretary
Address : 6th Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila, 1004, Philippines
Telephone No. : 5317-6363 local 1121
Email :

Office of the Chief Economist

Name : Domini SD. Velasquez
Designation : Undersecretary and Chief Economist
Address : 6th Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila 1004, Philippines
Telephone : 5317-6363 local 4517
Email :

Name : Neil Adrian S. Cabiles
Designation : Assistant Secretary
Address : 3rd Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila, 1004, Philippines
Telephone No. : 5317-6363 local 4517
Email :

Name : Jolly D. La Rosa
Designation : Director IV
Address : 3rd Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila 1004, Philippines
Telephone : 5317-6363 local 4512
Email :

Information Management Service

The Information Management Service (IMS) is the Department of Finance’s primary stakeholder engagement and strategic communications arm. It is in charge of conveying the programs, projects, and accomplishments of the Department, its attached agencies and the Economic Development Cluster to various stakeholders.

Name : Maria Luwalhati C. Dorotan-Tiuseco
Designation : Undersecretary
Address : 6th Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila, 1004, Philippines
Telephone No. : 5317-6363 local 1121
Email :

Name : Cherry Mae P. Gonzales
Designation : Director IV
Address : 3rd Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila 1004, Philippines
Telephone No. : 5317-6363 local 1109
Email :

Internal Audit Service

As the assigned unit in the appraisal of the internal control system within the organization, the Internal Audit Service (IAS): advise the Secretary on all matters relating to management control; conduct management, operations and compliance audits; review and appraise systems and procedures, organizational structures, asset management practices, financial and management records, reports, and performance standards of the department proper, bureaus and attached agencies, including field offices; analyze and evaluate management deficiencies and assist the top management by recommending realistic courses of action; and perform such other related duties and responsibilities as may be assigned by the Secretary or as may be required by law.

Name : Maria Edita Z. Tan
Designation : Supervising Undersecretary
Address : 6th Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila 1004, Philippines
Telephone : 8523-4955
Email :

Name : Catherine O. Lopez
Designation : OIC Director IV
Address : 7th Floor, EDPC Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila 1004, Philippines
Telephone No. :
Email :

Special Concerns and Oversight

The Special Concerns and Oversight (SCO) provides advisory and technical services to the Secretary of Finance with respect to special concerns in relation to national security and housing.

Name : Maria Edita Z. Tan
Designation : Undersecretary
Address : 6th Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila 1004, Philippines
Telephone : 8523-4955
Email :

Tax Research and Expenditure Monitoring

Name : Renato E. Reside Jr.
Designation : Undersecretary
Address : 6th Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila 1004, Philippines
Telephone : 5317-6363 local 1203
Email :

FISCAL POLICY AND MONITORING GROUP (FPMG)

The Fiscal Policy and Monitoring Group (FPMG) is primarily responsible for forecasting and programming revenues of the national government (NG), cash programming, and monitoring of NG finances. It also formulates and shepherds tax reform proposals and other fiscal policy recommendations as the legislative liaison arm of the DOF.​

Name : Karlo Fermin S. Adriano
Designation : Assistant Secretary
Address : 3rd Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila 1004, Philippines
Telephone : 5317-6363 local 1304
Email :

Fiscal Policy And Planning Office

The Fiscal Policy and Planning Office (FPPO) formulates long-range and annual projections of revenue needs, cash position, and borrowing capacity of the NG as a basis for the DOF’s policy decisions. FPPO supervises policy research and development on fiscal and tax measures undertaken by the operating bureaus and offices of the DOF. It also coordinates with other government agencies on policy research as it impacts on fiscal and tax measures. Specifically, FPPO:

  • Assists in the overall macroeconomic planning process in coordination with the Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC) by providing inputs to the NG’s annual and medium-term fiscal program
  • Prepares, assesses, and forecasts the revenue program, including projections
  • Consolidates the public sector financial position and public sector debt from reports provided by the Corporate Affairs Group, Bureau of the Treasury, GFIs and BSP.
  • Prepares studies on excise taxation, value-added tax (VAT) and tariffs, which includes the formulation or drafting of tax reform measures and position papers; the provision of technical assistance to Congress; and the review of implementing rules and regulations (IRR)
  • Collects, monitors, reviews, consolidates, and analyzes economic reports and data required for fiscal planning and policy formulation activities

Name : Rowena S. Sta. Clara
Designation : Director IV
Address : 3rd Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila, 1004, Philippines
Telephone No. : (632) 8525-4332
Email :

Name : Johanna P. Hortinela
Designation : Director III
Address : 3rd Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila, 1004, Philippines
Telephone No. : (632) 8525-4332
Email :

Policy, Research and Liaison Office

The Policy, Research and Liaison Office is primarily responsible for tax policy formulation, legislative liaison work on tax, financial and economic proposals, and information dissemination activities.

Specifically, these involve the:

  • Conduct of studies and simulations, and preparations of DOF position papers/comments on various tax and fiscal-related bills or on the tax aspects of other bills initiated by other agencies or legislators
  • Drafting of tax reform bills and the submission and shepherding of the same in both Houses of Congress
  • Extension of technical assistance to both Houses of Congress and individual legislators in the drafting and analysis of tax bills
  • Participation in the preparation or review of the IRR of various tax laws or laws with tax provisions
  • Conduct of briefings/lectures on the mandate, functions, activities, and accomplishments of the DOF to visiting students from various colleges and universities, as well as other government functionaries.

Name : Maria Karla L. Espinosa
Designation : Director IV
Address : 3rd Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila, 1004, Philippines
Telephone : 5317-6363 local 3101
Email :

Name : Ma. Jesusa A. Bato
Designation : Director III
Address : 3rd Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila, 1004, Philippines
Telephone : 5317-6363 local 3101
Email :

Privatization and Partnerships Group (PPG)

Privatization and Partnerships Group

The Privatization and Partnerships Group (PPG) provides technical and administrative assistance to the Secretary of Finance in the exercise of his function as Chairman of the Privatization Council, through the evaluation and review of issues involved in the prospective privatization of government assets. The PPG is also the DOF office responsible for the promotion of public-private partnerships (PPP) and the evaluation and review of solicited and unsolicited PPP projects.

Name : Glenda R. Rumohr-Figueroa
Designation: Assistant Secretary
Address: 5th Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila, 1004, Philippines
Telephone No.: 5317-6363 local 1303
Email:

Name : Catherine L. Fong
Designation: Undersecretary
Address: 6th Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila, 1004, Philippines
Telephone No.: (632) 8524-5137
Email:

Corporate Sector and Strategic Infrastructure Group (CSSIG)

Corporate Sector and
Strategic Infrastructure Group

Name : Rolando G. Tungpalan
Designation: Undersecretary
Address: 6th Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila, 1004, Philippines
Telephone No. : 5317-6363 local 1231
Email:

Name : Eufrocinio M. Bernabe Jr.
Designation : Assistant Secretary
Address : 5th Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila 1004, Philippines
Telephone No. : 5317-6363 local 1317
Email :

Name : Ronald Ray K. San Juan
Designation : Director IV
Address : 5th Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila, 1004, Philippines
Telephone No. : 5317-6363 local 3703
Email :

Name : Jenaira Mae A. Jalasco
Designation : Director III
Address : 5th Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila, 1004, Philippines
Telephone No. : 5317-6363 local 3703
Email :

Corporate Operations Office

COO initiatives are:

  1. to increase the net contributions of GOCCs to the National Treasury,
  2. to make the government corporate sector responsive to financial and fiscal reforms, and
  3. to instil public accountability and financial discipline in GOCCs.

Name : Joanna P. Castillo
Designation : Director IV
Address : 5th Floor, BSP Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila 1004, Philippines
Telephone No. : (632) 8527-3826 or 5317-6363 local 3700
Email :

Name : Tanya T. Real
Designation : Director III
Address : 5th Floor, BSP Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila 1004, Philippines
Telephone No. : 5317-6363 local 3740
Email :

Revenue Operations Group (ROG)

The Revenue Operations Group (ROG) processes requests for tax exemptions, and reviews tax rulings and revenue and customs regulations for issuance. It also reviews protest cases and provides general supervision and coordination of internal revenue and customs operations.

Name : Charlito Martin R. Mendoza
Designation : Undersecretary (as FIRB Technical Committee Chairperson)
Address : 6th Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila 1004, Philippines
Telephone No. : 5317-6363 local 1241
Email :

Name : Gerald Alan A. Quebral
Designation : Assistant Secretary
Address : 5th Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila 1004, Philippines
Telephone No. : 5317-6363 local 1311
Email :

Name : Dakila Elteen M. Napao
Designation : Assistant Secretary (as FIRB Secretariat Head)
Address : 5th Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila 1004, Philippines
Telephone No. : 5317-6363 local 1311
Email :

Name : Euvimil Nina R. Asuncion
Designation : Director IV
Address: 5th Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila 1004, Philippines
Telephone No. : 5317-6363 local 1311
Email :

Revenue Office

The Revenue Office is responsible for processing of applications for exemption from payment of duties or taxes on importations of qualified applicants and chartered entities; Reviews discussions of the BOC in seizure, forfeiture, dumping, auction, abatement and refunds, protest and other tariff and customs related cases.

Name : Sheila N. Castaloni
Designation : Director IV
Address : Podium, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila, 1004, Philippines
Telephone No. : (632) 8526-8458
Fax No. : 8523-4955
Email :

Name : Eleazar C. Cesista
Designation : Director III
Address : Podium, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila, 1004, Philippines
Telephone No. : (632) 8526-8458
Fax No. : 8523-4955
Email :

International Finance Group (IFG)

The International Finance Group (IFG) secures foreign grants and loans, and initiates and negotiates foreign borrowing and debt restructuring. IFG participates in policy formulation regarding external resource mobilization and coordinates with other government agencies regarding international agreement on trade, investment, tax treaties, and other international arrangements.

Name : Joven Z. Balbosa
Designation : Undersecretary
Address : 6th Floor,, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila, 1004, Philippines
Telephone No. : 8523-4955
Email :

Name : Donalyn U. Minimo
Designation : OIC Assistant Secretary
Address : 4th Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila, 1004, Philippines
Telephone No. : (632) 8525-4194
Email :

International Finance Operations Office

The International Finance Operations Office (IFOO) provides advisory and technical support services in the formulation, evaluation, and execution of Philippine negotiating positions and options with respect to the restructuring of external debt, as well as new loans and grants, from bilateral and multilateral financial institutions.

Bilateral Assistance Division

Name : John Adrian M. Narag
Designation : OIC Director IV
Address : 4th Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila, 1004, Philippines
Telephone No. :(632) 8400-7446
Email :

Multilateral Assistance Division

International Finance Policy Office

The International Finance Policy Office (IFPO) provides advisory and technical supports services with respect to international economic, financial, and trade developments and their implications for the Philippine economy. IFPO also provides inputs into the formulation of fiscal, monetary, financial, foreign trade, budgetary, balance of payments, and exchange rate policies.

Name : Carlyn A. Diaz
Designation : OIC Director III
Address : 4th Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila, 1004, Philippines
Telephone No. :(632) 8400-7446
Email :

The Legal Services and Local Finance Group (LSLFG) provides legal advice and support to the offices of the Department of Finance (DOF) and its attached agencies, to ensure consistency with policies and compliance with all relevant laws, rules and regulations. This include providing the following: (i.) legal review of rules and regulations; (ii.) rendering advisory opinions; (iii.) preparation of decisions on administrative cases; (iv.) review of contracts contract; (v.) litigation monitoring; (vi.) providing comments to legislative bills; (vii.) representing the DOF in boards, committees, working groups, such as PH-Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, Fiscal Incentives Review Board, and Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao boards, and the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council. The LSLFG likewise supervises the Revenue Integrity Protection Service (RIPS), the anti-corruption arm of the DOF, by conducting lifestyle checks on employees within the DOF family. It also supervises the Bureau of Local Government Finance (BLGF).

Name : Danielle Marie S. Rieza-Culangen
Designation: Assistant Secretary
Address: 5th Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila 1004, Philippines
Telephone No.: 8526-0531
Email:

Name : Bayani H. Agabin
Designation: Undersecretary
Address: 6th Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila 1004, Philippines
Telephone No. : 8523-9222
Email:

Legal Affairs Office

The Legal Affairs Office (LAO) renders legal advice and support to the Secretary of Finance and other units of the Department of Finance (DOF), to ensure consistency with policies and compliance with all relevant laws, rules and regulations.

The LAO also performs the following functions:

  1. legal review of rules and regulations, memoranda, orders and other issuances proposed by other units and attached agencies of the DOF;
  2. rendering advisory opinions;
  3. prepares of decisions or rulings on administrative cases within the DOF’s original jurisdiction or elevated by attached agencies for review and/or approval of the Secretary of Finance;
  4. legal review of contracts and agreements proposed to be entered into by the DOF, prior to approval of the Secretary of Finance;
  5. monitoring of cases involving the DOF;
  6. provides inputs and comments to various legislative bills and proposed executive issuances that contain provisions affecting matters covered by the DOF’s mandate; and
  7. represents the DOF in governing boards, inter-agency committees, and working groups.

Name : Joyce M. Briones
Designation: Director IV
Address: 5th Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila 1004, Philippines
Telephone No.: 8526-8449
Email:

Name : Marina Elenita S. Lizaso
Designation: Director III
Address: 5th Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila 1004, Philippines
Telephone No.: 8526-8449
Email:

Revenue Integrity Protection Service

The Revenue Integrity Protection Service (RIPS) is the anti-corruption arm of the DOF created by Executive Order 259 (December 17, 2003).

RIPS investigates allegations of corruption in the DOF and its attached agencies such as the Bureau of Internal Revenue and the Bureau of Customs, the Bureau of Local Government Finance, Bureau of Treasury, Central Board of Assessment Appeals, the Insurance Commission, the National Tax Research Center, the Fiscal Incentives Review Board, and the Privatization and Management Office. Following the results of these investigations, RIPS then files the necessary charges against erring officials and employees with the appropriate government agencies (e.g., Office of the Ombudsman).

RIPS encourages active participation form the public in eradicating corruption in government.

Name : Ray Gilberto J. Espinosa
Designation : Director IV
Address: 7th Floor, EDPC Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila 1004, Philippines
Telephone No. : 5317-6363 local 4201
Email :

Name : Catherine O. Lopez
Designation : Director III
Address : 7th Floor, EDPC Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila 1004, Philippines
Telephone No. :
Email :

Name : Charlito Martin R. Mendoza
Designation : Undersecretary
Address : 6th Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila 1004, Philippines
Telephone No. : 5317-6363 local 1241
Email :

Policy Development and Management Services Group (PDMSG)

The Policy Development and Management Services Group (PDMSG) provides administrative and financial management support to the groups under the Office of the Secretary (DOF OSEC). It also designs and manages the human resource development program of the DOF.
PDMSG coordinates activities of the bureaus, agencies, and corporations under the DOF and with other institutions on matters of national importance and ensures that directives and collaborative undertakings for executive offices on common concerns are promptly considered. The group also handles public relations and related concerns.

Name : Angelica I. Sarmiento
Designation : Assistant Secretary
Address : 4th Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila 1004, Philippines
Telephone No. : (632) 8525-4451
Email :

Name : Niño Raymond B. Alvina
Designation : OIC Undersecretary
Address : 6th Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila 1004, Philippines
Telephone: (632) 8523-5671
Email :

Central Administration Office

The Central Administration Office (CAO) supervises services relating to personnel human resource development and general service administration, property and supplies procurement and custody, and maintenance of central files and the corresponding reporting system.

Name : Alvin P. Diaz
Designation : Director IV
Address : 7th Floor, EDPC Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila 1004, Philippines
Telephone No. : 5317-6363 local 2102
Email :

Name : Lilia R. Tan
Designation : Director III
Address : 7th Floor, EDPC Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila 1004, Philippines
Telephone No. : 5317-6363 local 2101
Email :

Central Financial Management Office

The Central Financial Management Office (CFMO) supervises activities relating to budget preparation and management, accounting, and internal audit.

Name : Lolita Verdadero
Designation : Director IV
Address : 7th Floor, EDPC Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila 1004, Philippines
Telephone No. : (632) 8526-8166
Email :

Central Management Information Office

The Central Management Information Office (CMIO) monitors and evaluates programs and projects, including those that are executed by operating bureaus and offices. It also formulates policies, plans, and procedures for data control and systems management and acts as the central repository of existing and future computer files.

Name : Angelica I. Sarmiento
Designation : Assistant Secretary
Address : 4th Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila 1004, Philippines
Telephone No. : (632) 8525-4451
Email :

Name : Michaelangelo G. Aguinaldo
Designation : Director III
Address : 4th Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila 1004, Philippines
Telephone No. : (632) 8525-4451
Email :

Name : Clyde E. Padilla
Designation : Director III
Address : 4th Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila 1004, Philippines
Telephone No. : (632) 8525-4451
Email :

Political and Legislative Liaison Group (PLLG)

The Political and Legislative Liaison Group (PLLG) serves as the Department of Finance’s link to the Senate of the Philippines and the House of Representatives. It is primarily tasked to shepherd and ensure passage of the Department’s and its attached agencies’ key priority measures. The Group further serves as the clearing and monitoring house for other fiscal and economic legislative information, data and inputs.

Name : Maria Luwalhati C. Dorotan-Tiuseco
Designation : Undersecretary
Address : 6th Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila, 1004, Philippines
Telephone No. : 5317-6363 local 1121
Email :

Climate Finance Policy Group (CFPG)

The Climate Finance Policy Group (CFPG) provides advisory services and technical support to the Secretary of Finance concerning the Department’s mandates on climate finance, disaster risk financing and insurance, and sustainable finance covering financing, initiatives, and partnerships in the national and global setting. With the role of finance as catalyst to achieving climate justice and just transition across all sectors of society, the CFPG participates and contributes in shaping domestic policies to ensure a climate- resilient financial sector.

Name : Maria Luwalhati C. Dorotan-Tiuseco
Designation : Undersecretary
Address : 6th Floor, DOF Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila, 1004, Philippines
Telephone No. : 5317-6363 local 1121
Email :

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