Title
Personal Property Exemption from Land Tax Levy
Law
Act No. 2204
Decision Date
Jan 15, 1913
Act No. 2204 exempts essential personal property, such as tools, animals, clothing, household items, provisions, professional libraries, and fishing equipment, from being attached or sold in cases of delinquent land tax payment, safeguarding individuals' livelihoods and basic needs.

Exemptions from land-tax levy

  • Section 1 exempts the following property from attachment and execution for delinquency in the payment of the land tax:
    • Tools and implements necessarily used by the debtor in his trade or employment.
    • One horse or cow, or carabao, or other beast of burden, such as the debtor may select, and necessarily used by him in his ordinary occupation.
    • His necessary clothing, and that of all his family.
    • Household furniture and utensils necessary for housekeeping, and used for that purpose by the debtor, such as the debtor may select, of a value not exceeding seventy-five pesos.
    • Provisions actually provided for individual or family use sufficient for three months.
    • Professional libraries of lawyers, judges, clergymen, doctors, school-teachers, and music teachers, not exceeding five hundred pesos in value.
    • One fishing boat and net, not exceeding the total value and of twenty-five pesos, the property of any fisherman, by the lawful use of which he earns a livelihood.
  • Section 1 limits the exemptions to the listed personal property categories and their stated value/quantity conditions.

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