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By: Atty. Euney Marie Mata-Perez on January 28,2021. To claim a refund for an erroneously or illegally collected tax, Section 229 of the National Internal Revenue Code, as amended (Tax Code), provides that the claimant must first file an administrative claim with the commissioner of Internal...

By: Euney Marie Mata-Perez on January 7, 2021 Tax reform is part of the main agenda of the Duterte administration. So it was a welcome development when Republic Act 10963, or the “Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion Act” (Train), took effect on Jan. 1, 2018 to mainly address...

By: Euney Marie Mata-Perez on December 31, 2020 2020 will always be a year the world cannot forget. At its start, we saw the eruption of the beautiful Taal Volcano. And then we faced a force majeure like no other — the Covid-19 pandemic, prompting countries to try containing it, including imposing...

By: Mark Anthony Tamayo on December 24, 2020 Taxes are the lifeblood of the government and should, as an inflexible policy, be collected promptly and without hindrance or delay (see Commissioner of Internal Revenue vs Standard Insurance Co., GR 219340) in order not to disrupt the operations of the...

By. Atty. Euney Marie Mata-Perez on December 17, 2020 Last month, the Senate finally passed on third reading Senate Bill 1357, or the “Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprise Act” (Create), which aims to reform our corporate income tax (CIT) and incentives system, and propose significant...