The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) filed on Friday, June 25 separate tax evasion charges against 10 companies and their key officers and one single proprietor for alleged refusal to pay tax debts totalling over P330 million. (Photo from BIR Facebook page) The BIR submitted the criminal complaints...
The Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) en banc has cancelled the P53-million tax collection case imposed by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) against the president of one of the country's largest logistics and transport companies for violating his right to due process. (Photo from BIR Facebook page) The...
The Department of Finance (DOF) expects revenues from real property tax (RPT) would accelerate as local government units (LGUs) enhance their digital tools to strengthen local property valuation and tax collections. In a statement, Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III said on Tuesday, June 22,...
The Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) has ordered the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and the Bureau of Customs (BOC) to refund to the Philippine Airlines (PAL) the more than P402 million in specific taxes that it paid in protest for importing aviation gas. (Photo from PAL Facebook page) The court en...
Senator Risa Hontiveros said the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) should revoke the order imposing a 25 percent tax increase on private schools as this may only displace more students should these institutions are forced to close due to increased economic pressure due to the coronavirus (COVID-19)...
The Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) has cancelled the Bureau of Internal Revenue's (BIR) P28-million tax collection case against a Bacolod City-based cargo firm for erroneous audit. (Photo from BIR Facebook page) The court's Second Division stated that the right to due process of Yan An Cargo...
The House Committee on Ways and Means has approved the measure that seeks to put a stop to a government policy imposing higher tax on private schools and hospitals. Committee chairman and Albay Representative Joel Salceda presided over the panel meeting that approved the consolidation of House...
The Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) has denied the belated petition filed by a Cagayan de Oro City resident to stop the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) from auctioning the properties of his deceased uncle to settle estate tax debts of over P1 billion. (Photo from BIR Facebook page) The court's second...
BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara Last March, President Duterte enacted into law Republic Act 11534, more widely known as the Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises or CREATE Act. Certified at the time as urgent by Malacañang, the law was touted as one of the government’s critical...
It seems that Malacañang is unlikely to reverse a Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) rule imposing higher corporate income tax on private schools in the country for now. President Rodrigo Duterte (File photo/Malacañang) Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque declared Thursday that the Palace supports...
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)...
