The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has warned accountants against tax dodging, urging them to ensure their clients are paying the correct taxes to the government. In a statement Tuesday, March 21, BIR Commissioner Romeo D. Lumagui, Jr. said the bureau’s enforcement activities will be...
The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), the government’s main tax agency, is leaving no stone unturned to catch taxpayers and businesses that are using fictitious receipts. BIR Commissioner Romeo D. Lumagui, Jr. said Thursday, March 16, that taxpayers and businesses caught with illegal receipts...
The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) said single parents can now claim 10 percent discount and value-added tax exemption for purchases of goods for their children aged six years old and below. This, after BIR Commissioner Romeo D. Lumagui, Jr. signed Revenue Regulations (RR) 1-2023 implementing the...
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has surpassed its revenue collection target four days before the end of January this year. In a statement, BOC Commissioner Yogi Filemon Ruiz said the target revenue collection for January is P58.822 billion but on Jan. 27. he said the revenue collection was already at...
The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) said value-added taxpayers are no longer required to file the return on a monthly basis starting this month. Bureau of Internal Revenue The new schedule was contained in Revenue Memorandum Circular (RMC) No. 5-2023 which implemented Section 37 of Tax Reform for...
The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has raided perpetrators of illicit cigarette trade across the country, placing all regional enforcers on alert while their operations were ongoing on 378 stores in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. BIR Commissioner Romeo Lumagui Jr. led a raid on Wednesday, Jan. 25,...
The names of alleged big-time oil smugglers were revealed on Thursday, January 19 during a Senate consultation meeting called by Senator Raffy Tulfo with the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and Bureau of Customs (BOC) on the controversial fuel marking program. Tulfo, chairman of the Senate energy...
Makati City Mayor Abby Binay announced on Tuesday, Jan. 17, that the city has collected more than P20.92 billion in revenue for the year 2022. The lady mayor expressed hope that the increase in the revenue being projected by the city is a good sign of better times for Makatizens amid the social and...
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has achieved a P862.929 billion revenue collection for 2022, which it said, did not only exceed its tax collection for the year but also set the agency's record that all ports exceeded their annual collection targets. "It was the first time in the BOC history that all...
Distributors and sellers of vaporized nicotine and non-nicotine products must comply with the requirements of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) following the seizure of tons of smuggled and untaxed vape products from five big time illicit vape...
The country’s 2022 tourism industry generated P208.96 billion ($3.68 billion) in revenues, a whopping 2,465 percent increase from 2021, with 2.65 million international visitor arrivals as of end this year and setting the stage for a more vibrant 2023, the Department of Tourism reported. In a...
Revenue collection is on track to hit the government's full-year target this year driven by the Bureau of Customs’ better than expected performance, data from the Bureau of the Treasury showed. Based on the Treasury report on Tuesday, Dec. 27, total revenues reached P3.277 billion from January to...
