The Department of Finance (DOF) said the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) is set to file charges against individuals behind the alleged counterfeit cigarette tax stamps seized recently in Bacolod City. In a statement released by the DOF on Wednesday, June 9, the department quoted BIR Deputy...
The Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) has stopped the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) from collecting more than P512 million in deficiency taxes from a real estate company after it turned out that the investigation on the case was conducted by unauthorized revenue officers. (Photo from BIR Facebook page)...
The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has come out with a set of questions for taxpayers who will be filing their registration applications online. (Photo by Glenn Carstens Peters / Unsplash) The questionnaire prepared by Revenue Deputy Commissioner for Operations Arnel SD. Guballa should be...
Deputy House Speaker Representative Rufus Rodriguez is pushing for a bill that would clarify an existing provision on tax perks granted to educational institutions under the Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises (CREATE) law which the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) allegedly...
Senator Nancy Binay on Sunday urged the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to “have a heart” and spare private schools from a 150 percent increase in income tax. Binay said the BIR should withdraw its Revenue Regulation No. 5-2021 which seeks to impose higher income tax on so-called proprietary...
The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has reported that 1.43 million or 99.5 percent of all the income tax returns filed (ITRs) during the last tax filing season were filed online. In a report to the Secretary of Finance, the BIR said that only 7,139 returns were filed manually. This is clearly a...
The Coordinating Council for Private Educational Associations (COCOPEA) has appealed for President Duterte’s intervention to reverse a Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) regulation increasing their tax rate. In an open letter dated June 4, 2021 released by COCOPEA, about 600 private schools and...
The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has filed another set of tax evasion cases against 16 corporate and individual taxpayers based in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao amounting to almost P1 billion. (Photo by Scott Graham / Unsplash) All in all, the tax evasion cases amounted to P959 million. Ten of...
The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has padlocked a Parañaque City grocery for alleged non-registration and non-payment of value-added tax (VAT) amounting to more than P21 million. (Photo by Roth Melinda / Unsplash) South National (NCR) Assistant Revenue Regional Director Saripuden Bantog...
The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has come out with an online business registration schedule for taxpayers' convenience and in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). 20210424_232019 The contactless transaction schedule can be accessed at the agency's newly developed...
As the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) ramps up digitalization initiatives, the Department of Finance (DOF) reported that nearly all income tax returns (ITRs) were filed online during the last tax filing season. In a statement released by the DOF on Thursday, June 3, it cited a BIR report stating...
The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) said that almost 100 percent of individual and business taxpayers chose to file their 2020 income tax returns (ITRs) online this year. (Photo from Simon Hattinga / Unsplash) In a report to Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III, Revenue Deputy Commissioner for...
