(Revenue Regulations No. 1- 2017, January 18, 2016)
This Tax Alert is issued to inform all concerned that VAT claims filed and pending prior to the effectivity of RMC 54-2014 (June 11, 2014) shall continue to be processed administratively.
Pursuant to this Revenue Regulations (RR) 1-2017, the BIR will continue to process the administrative claims that are deemed officially filed prior to RMC 54- 2014. Officially filed claims are those with complete documents submitted as support so that processing and counting of the 120-day can start. If no additional documents are submitted after filing, the claim will be processed based on available documents and the 120-day period shall be counted therefrom. Completion of documents for submission should be done before the expiration of the statutory two- year period.
In previous RMC 49-2003, taxpayer/claimant is given 30 days upon filing to complete submission of documents. It is only upon complete submission of documents that the 120-day period would begin to run.
Upon effectivity of RMC 54-2014, pending claims which are still in the process of submission of documents were already deemed denied.
However, as clarified by the RR, RMC 54-2014 should not be given retroactive effect.
The following are not covered with this RR:
