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A Call to Pass Bills to Reform Philippine Capital Markets Taxation

Written on July 25, 2024. Posted in MTF Articles, News, News and Updates.

By: Atty. Euney Marie J. Mata-Perez on July 25,2024 Last July 11, 2024, I joined as one of the panelists in the 11th PICPA-Cebu Summit where I discussed the pending PIFITA or the Passive Income and Financial Intermediary Taxation Act Bill (House Bill No. 4339) which seeks to reform the taxation...

No LOA Needed During Reinvestigation of a Taxpayer’s Protest

Written on July 18, 2024. Posted in MTF Articles, News, News and Updates.

By: Atty. Raida Argelli G. Grefiel on July 18,2024 Our National Internal Revenue Code, as amended (the “Tax Code”) empowers the Commissioner of Internal Revenue (“CIR”) to conduct an assessment of the taxes paid by a taxpayer through the CIR’s duly authorized representative armed with a...

Impact of the New Real Property Valuation Act

Written on July 11, 2024. Posted in MTF Articles, News, News and Updates.

By: Atty. Euney Marie J. Mata-Perez on July 11,2024 On 13 June 2024, President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. signed into law Republic Act No. 12001, the Real Property Valuation and Assessment Reform Act (RP-VAR Act), which will change significantly the landscape of our real property valuation...

Emerging from Mergers

Written on July 4, 2024. Posted in MTF Articles, News.

By: Atty. Lew Earvin H. Manarin on July 4, 2024 Mergers play a crucial role in the corporate landscape. Mergers help companies compete better, keep up with new technology, and handle economic changes more effectively. Overall, mergers can be essential catalysts for growth and staying competitive...

Withholding Tax Requirement Repeal Issues

Written on June 27, 2024. Posted in MTF Articles, News.

By: Atty. Euney Marie J. Mata-Perez on June 27,2024 Republic Act No. 11976, the Ease of Paying Taxes Act (“EOPTA”), repealed Section 34(K) of the National Internal Revenue Code (“Tax Code”) which provides that expenses or income payments are allowed as deductions from gross income “only if it...

Supreme Court rules in favor of privacy rights

Written on June 20, 2024. Posted in MTF Articles, News.

By: Atty. Xela Leona D. Laqui on June 20,2024 In the recent case Integrated Bar of the Philippines v. Purisima, (G.R. Nos. 211772 and 212178, April 18, 2023) (the “IBP Case”), the Supreme Court invalidated portions of Sections 2(1) and 2(2) of Bureau of Internal Revenue (“BIR”) Revenue Regulations...

Philippine SEC’s Fintech Regulatory Sandbox

Written on June 13, 2024. Posted in MTF Articles, News.

By: Atty. Euney Marie J. Mata-Perez on June 13,2024 Our Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is now open to developing the financial technology (“Fintech”) industry and adopting the latest innovations in this industry in the Philippines. In April of this year, the SEC, through its newly...

MTF Counsel’s 11th

Written on June 6, 2024. Posted in MTF Articles, News.

By: Atty. Euney Marie J. Mata-Perez on June 6,2024 We are doubly blessed, as we celebrated our firm’s 11th anniversary yesterday, June 4, 2024. Eleven is double one—as what Fr. Pat Villasanta of the Salesian Order said, double one means double blessings, as the number 1 represents God. My...

Proposed New VAT on Digital Services

Written on May 23, 2024. Posted in MTF Articles, News.

By: Atty. Euney Marie J. Mata-Perez on May 23,2024 Our government is poised to expand its wings, to take advantage of the global growth of the digital economy. The Senate approved on third reading Senate Bill (SB) No. 2528, a bill proposing to impose the 12% value-added tax (VAT) on suppliers...