By: Atty. Euney Marie Mata-Perez on May 28,2020
The coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic gave rise to some benefits. The Department of Finance (DoF) recently added proposed enhancements or amendments to the Corporate Income Tax and Incentives Reform Act (Citira), now renamed the Corporate...
By: Atty. Euney Marie Mata-Perez on May 21,2020
The huge impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic on the health and mobility of our people, as well as on our businesses and economy as a whole, is beyond what we all thought. The enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) imposed in mid-March...
Dear Valued Clients and Friends,
We are sending to you a copy of Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Labor Advisory No. 18 dated May 18, 2020, providing for the guidelines on the cost of Covid-19 prevention and control measures.
The employer shall shoulder the cost of Covid-19 prevention and...
Dear Valued Clients and Friends,
We are sending to you a copy of Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Labor Advisory No. 17 dated May 18, 2020, providing for the guidelines on employment preservation upon resumption of business operation.
The DOLE encourages employers to adopt work-from-home...
Dear Valued Clients and Friends,
We are sending to you a copy of Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) Revenue Memorandum Circular (RMC) No. 47-2020 dated May 11, 2020, prescribing for the guidelines on temporary measures adopted by taxpayers relative to the receipting/invoicing requirements during the...
By: Atty. Mark Anthony Tamayo on May 14,2020
One significant trade facilitation measure in customs clearance procedure and formalities was the adoption of the Revised Kyoto Convention (RKC) provisions relating to provisional or incomplete goods declaration (PGD) in the Customs Modernization and Tariff...
Dear Valued Clients and Friends,
We are sending to you a copy of Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Department Order No. 213, which prescribes for the guidelines in the prescription of actions and suspension of reglementary periods to file pleadings, motions, and documents before the DOLE Regional...
Dear Valued Clients and Friends,
We are sending to you a copy of Interim Guidelines on Workplace Prevention and Control of Covid-19 issued by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on April 30, 2020.
The DTI and DOLE Interim Guidelines is issued to...
By: Atty Gerardo Maximo Francisco on May 7,2020
At some point, the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) still in effect in many areas in the Philippines will be downgraded by the government to the level of a general community quarantine (GCQ). Hopefully, this vital decision to shift to a GCQ will...