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The Revenue Audit Memorandum Order (Ramo) 1-2019 was issued as supplement for Ramo 1-2000 (Updated Handbook on Audit Procedures and Techniques Volume 1) and Ramo 1-2008 (Computer Assisted Audit Tools and Techniques) and to provide standardized audit procedures and techniques in auditing taxpayers with related party and/or intra-firm transactions to ensure quality audit.

THE Philippines is home to individuals and corporations who enter business with other entities outside the country. As follows, Philippine residents earn income from foreign sources. Countries, otherwise called as Contracting States, have entered to tax treaties to make sure that there is no double taxation or double non-taxation on any foreign-sourced income by its residents. Needless to say, tax treaties, which allow for certain income tax benefits, are implemented in the Philippines to encourage foreign trade and investments.

THE Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) recently issued Revenue Memorandum Circular (RMC) 107-2019 to further extend the validity period of Certificate of Accreditation (COA) and Permits to Use (PTUs) of Cash Register Machines (CRMs), Point-of-Sale (POS) machines and other sales machines or receipting software.

LAST October 9, 2019, the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) issued Revenue Memorandum Circular (RMC) 105-2019 to clarify the tax treatment of the salary differential paid by the employer in favor of the female employee in the private sector.

THE Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) recently issued Revenue Memorandum Circular 100-2019, prescribing the use of revised BIR Form 2316 (Certificate of Compensation Payment/Tax Withheld) January 2018, which was amended due to the implementation of Republic Act 10963, also known as the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion Law.

SECTION 10 of Republic Act 11232, otherwise known as the Revised Corporation Code of the Philippines, allows any person, partnership, association or corporation, singly or jointly with others, but not more than 15 in number, to organize a corporation for any lawful purpose or purposes.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been receiving numerous complaints against Financing Companies (FCs) and Lending Companies (LCs) that allegedly harass borrowers and employ abusive, unethical and unfair means to collect debt. It has also come to the attention of the SEC that these FCs and LCs are purposely employing third-party service providers (TPSPs) to avoid liability for client harassment. In line with these developments, the SEC issued Memorandum Circular 18 Series of 2019 to regulate and supervise such practices.

THE Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) issued Revenue Regulations (RR) 09-2019 on Aug. 27, 2019 to amend RR 05-2017 on the tax privileges to persons with disabilities (PWDs) and tax incentives to establishments granting sales discounts to such PWDs.