BIR goes online under National Single Window transaction platform

MANILA, Philippines — The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), along with the National Tobacco Administration (NTA), became one of the first two government agencies on June 19 to be onboarded on the National Single Window-Integrated Trade Facilitation Transaction Platform (NSW-ITFP).

The platform is part of the efforts, led by the Department of Information and Communications Technology, to implement whole-of-government digitalization to make government transactions easier and more efficient for businesses.

It’s a centralized digital platform that enables the submission, processing, and exchange of trade-related permits and regulatory documents through a single electronic gateway.

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As part of the onboarding, the BIR’s Electronic Authority to Release Imported Goods (eATRIG) service was integrated into the platform after it passed User Acceptance Testing (UAT), paving the way for the bureau’s pilot implementation of the National Single Window environment.

said that this is the kind of whole-of-government digitalization that will help make government transactions easier and more efficient for businesses.

“President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has directed government agencies to streamline services, reduce bureaucratic delays, and accelerate digital transformation,” Commissioner Charlito Martin R. Mendoza said in a statement on Tuesday.

“Integrating eATRIG into the National Single Window helps us do exactly that under the Digital and Data Transformation pillar of the BIR DARES Reform Agenda and supports our ongoing efforts to make compliance simpler and government services more efficient,” he added.

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Mendoza thanked the DICT for leading the development and rollout of the National Single Window, the Department of Finance for its policy guidance and support, and the BIR technical teams working on the project.

“We identified eATRIG as one of the Bureau’s priority digitalization projects for 2026 because of its direct impact on importers, manufacturers, logistics providers, and other businesses involved in international trade. Through the NSW-ITFP, eATRIG will help replace the manual ATRIG process with a more efficient, standardized, and secure digital workflow,” he said.

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Seventy-two Trade Regulatory Government Agencies are targeted to be onboarded in phases with the NSW-ITFP.

As more agencies and services are connected to the platform, businesses are expected to benefit from faster processing, fewer repetitive submissions, better coordination among government offices, and more predictable trade-related transactions. /atm

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