BY: SALLY A. ATENTO
LEGAZPI CITY, Mar 26(PIA) – The Civil Service Commision (CSC) Bicol has reiterated its call to all public servants in the region for complete and accurate declarations in their Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN).
“CSC Chair Francisco Duque has been calling on civil servants to start early so they can fill out their SALN correctly and completely. This gives them ample time to review the completeness and accuracy of their declarations before the April 30 deadline of each year,” CSC Bicol information officer Lynbee Niebla said in the Ugnayan sa Bicol radio program of the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) here.
Niebla said the filing of SALN is under the republic Act No. 6713 or the Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for Public Officials and Employees which requires public officials and employees to declare under oath their assets, liabilities, net worth and financial and business interests as of December 31 of the preceeding calendar year.
The prescribed SALN revised form 2013 is downloadable from the CSC website, www.csc.gov.ph, together with the guidelines on how to accomplish the form.
Declarations to be made by public servants in their SALN form include data on basic information, assets including real and personal properties, liabilities, net worth, financial connections and business interests and relatives in the government.
Spouses who are both in the government have the option to file their SALN jointly or separately.
Niebla cites the details to be included under real properties or properties which are immovable by nature.
“Declaration of real properties shall include its description, kind, location, year and mode of acquisition, assessed value, current fair market value, acquisition cost, and improvement to the said properties. Personal properties on the other hand shall include description, mode, year, cost acquisition or value . ” Niebla said.
Liabilities, referring to financial liability or anything that can result to a transfer or disposal of an asset, includes those incurred by the declarant and those of his spouse and unmarried children below 18 years old living in his household.
The outstanding balance will be the amount of money still due as of decemner 31 of the preceeding year.
The networth is the sum of all assets less the total liabilities.
To further ensure transparency, Niebla added, public servants also need to declare their business interests and financial connections.
“Business interests refer to declarants’s existing interest in any business enterprise or entity aside from his income from government. Financial connections on the other hand are the declarants existing connections with any business enterprise or entity wether as consultant, adviser and the like, with an expectations of renumeration for services rendered,” she noted.
Relatives working in government within the fourth civil degree of relationship, either by consanguinity or affinity, must also be disclosed by the declarant.
“Declarant should also declare his bilas (brother-in-law’s wife or sister-in-law’s husband), inso (wife of an elder brother or male cousin), and balae (parent of the declarant’s son-in-law or daughter-in-law) in government,”Niebla said.
Niebla also stressed that the SALN should be taken seriously since it is a declaration of transparency and accountability.
Failure of any public official or employee to submit his SALN or to disclose or misdeclare the required data is punishable by law under RA 6713. (MAL/SAA-PIA5/Albay)
LEGAZPI CITY, Mar 26(PIA) – The Civil Service Commision (CSC) Bicol has reiterated its call to all public servants in the region for complete and accurate declarations in their Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN).
“CSC Chair Francisco Duque has been calling on civil servants to start early so they can fill out their SALN correctly and completely. This gives them ample time to review the completeness and accuracy of their declarations before the April 30 deadline of each year,” CSC Bicol information officer Lynbee Niebla said in the Ugnayan sa Bicol radio program of the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) here.
Niebla said the filing of SALN is under the republic Act No. 6713 or the Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for Public Officials and Employees which requires public officials and employees to declare under oath their assets, liabilities, net worth and financial and business interests as of December 31 of the preceeding calendar year.
The prescribed SALN revised form 2013 is downloadable from the CSC website, www.csc.gov.ph, together with the guidelines on how to accomplish the form.
Declarations to be made by public servants in their SALN form include data on basic information, assets including real and personal properties, liabilities, net worth, financial connections and business interests and relatives in the government.
Spouses who are both in the government have the option to file their SALN jointly or separately.
Niebla cites the details to be included under real properties or properties which are immovable by nature.
“Declaration of real properties shall include its description, kind, location, year and mode of acquisition, assessed value, current fair market value, acquisition cost, and improvement to the said properties. Personal properties on the other hand shall include description, mode, year, cost acquisition or value . ” Niebla said.
Liabilities, referring to financial liability or anything that can result to a transfer or disposal of an asset, includes those incurred by the declarant and those of his spouse and unmarried children below 18 years old living in his household.
The outstanding balance will be the amount of money still due as of decemner 31 of the preceeding year.
The networth is the sum of all assets less the total liabilities.
To further ensure transparency, Niebla added, public servants also need to declare their business interests and financial connections.
“Business interests refer to declarants’s existing interest in any business enterprise or entity aside from his income from government. Financial connections on the other hand are the declarants existing connections with any business enterprise or entity wether as consultant, adviser and the like, with an expectations of renumeration for services rendered,” she noted.
Relatives working in government within the fourth civil degree of relationship, either by consanguinity or affinity, must also be disclosed by the declarant.
“Declarant should also declare his bilas (brother-in-law’s wife or sister-in-law’s husband), inso (wife of an elder brother or male cousin), and balae (parent of the declarant’s son-in-law or daughter-in-law) in government,”Niebla said.
Niebla also stressed that the SALN should be taken seriously since it is a declaration of transparency and accountability.
Failure of any public official or employee to submit his SALN or to disclose or misdeclare the required data is punishable by law under RA 6713. (MAL/SAA-PIA5/Albay)
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