Law Summary
Specific Fixed Taxes for Certain Business Activities
- Brewers: PHP 1,000 annually.
- Distillers: Graduated fixed tax based on annual production from PHP 100 to PHP 600.
- Rectifiers and repackers: PHP 450.
- Wholesale and retail peddlers of liquor and tobacco: ranging from PHP 16 to PHP 150.
- Wholesale liquor dealers: up to PHP 600 depending on location.
- Wholesale and retail tobacco dealers: PHP 30 to PHP 100.
- Manufacturers or importers of playing cards: PHP 200.
- Soft drink or mineral water manufacturers/importers: PHP 100.
- Brokers of various types: PHP 150, with graduated rates for real estate dealers based on income.
- Owners of race tracks: PHP 500 per race day.
- Lending investors: graduated rates based on municipality classification.
- Cinematographic film owners/lessors/distributors: PHP 200.
- Business agents: PHP 75.
Occupation Taxes
- Professionals such as lawyers, medical practitioners, engineers, insurance agents, and others pay PHP 75 annually.
- Other professionals such as land surveyors, nurses, professional actors, etc., pay PHP 50 annually.
- Payment of the annual privilege tax entitles professionals to practice nationwide without additional taxes or fees, subject to compliance with registration.
Tax Exemptions
- Persons with gross monthly sales not exceeding PHP 200.
- Sellers in public markets exclusively trading domestic meat, fruits, vegetables, poultry, fish, and similar food products.
- Retail peddlers with stock value not exceeding PHP 100 in domestic food products.
- Home producers working as one family with a daily production value per person not exceeding PHP 5.
- Owners of animal-drawn two-wheeled vehicles and bancas.
- Government employees exclusively serving the government and persons working full-time for non-profit religious, educational, charitable, or medical institutions exempt from occupation tax.
Transactions and Persons Not Subject to Percentage Tax
- Exclusions in computing percentage tax include:
- Articles already taxed under Title IV.
- Agricultural products and ordinary salt sold by producers or landowners.
- Fish and by-products sold by fishermen or fishing operators.
- Minerals sold by lessees, concessionaires, or owners.
- Articles taxed under section 189.
- Exports by manufacturers or producers.
- Exemptions from percentage tax:
- Persons with gross monthly sales not exceeding PHP 200.
- Market sellers exclusively trading specified domestic food products.
- Peddlers with stock not exceeding PHP 100.
- Home producers as described above.
- Importers under contracts for exclusive use by the Armed Forces.
Issuance of Sales Invoices or Receipts
- All persons subject to internal revenue tax must issue serially numbered sales invoices or receipts for sales or transfers valued at PHP 2 or more.
- For sales or transfers of PHP 50 or more, invoices must include purchaser's name and business address.
- Original to purchaser; duplicate kept by seller for five years.
- Persons with gross sales exceeding PHP 20,000 annually must issue invoices regardless of transaction value.
- The Collector of Internal Revenue may grant exemptions in meritorious cases.
- Public market vendors selling exclusively domestic meat, fruits, vegetables, poultry, fish, and similar products are exempted from this invoicing requirement.
Effectivity
- The provisions take effect upon approval on June 22, 1957.