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Retailers cheer VAT on digital services

By Louella Desiderio | October 4, 2024 - 12:00am

The country’s group of retailers cheered the signing of the law imposing value-added tax on digital services as this...

Business

VAT impact on Netflix, other services felt by 2025

By Louise Maureen Simeon | October 4, 2024 - 12:00am

Consumers will likely feel the impact of the value-added tax on foreign digital service providers in the first quarter of...

Headlines

Marcos signs law imposing 12% VAT on foreign digital services

By Cristina Chi | October 2, 2024 - 10:03am

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has signed into law a measure that taxes foreign digital services, which includes overseas-based...

Business

DOT hails measure providing VAT refund for foreign tourists

By Ghio Ong | September 27, 2024 - 12:00am

Refunding the value-added tax already charged to foreign tourists visiting the Philippines would help improve the country’s...

Headlines

Are you eligible for VAT zero-rating? A look into the requirements for zero percent VAT services

By Shirley Marie Cada | July 30, 2024 - 12:00am

Whenever the word “zero” comes to mind, it is usually perceived negatively, often because having zero means you literally have nothing.

Business

Streamlining the Philippines’ tax regime by taxing digital services

By Randel Rainer A. Leander | April 16, 2024 - 12:00am

It is undeniable that we are currently living in a dynamic landscape of the digital era.

Business

World Bank recommends review of VAT exemptions

By Louella Desiderio | April 4, 2024 - 12:00am

A review of value-added tax exemptions can help the Philippines improve tax collections without having to increase tax rates,...

Business

Hong Kong, Philippines work to enhance relations

By Marianne V. Go | March 22, 2024 - 12:00am

Filipinos are slowly beginning to travel back to Hong Kong following continued efforts by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office to woo tourists from the Philippines, as well as renew and improve trade and economic...

Business

BIR expands list of meds exempted from VAT

By Louise Maureen Simeon | March 8, 2024 - 12:00am

The Bureau of Internal Revenue has issued the updated list of value-added tax-exempt medicines for various diseases such as...

Headlines

Write-off, tax-off

By James Eliud G. Santos | January 23, 2024 - 12:00am

Most companies have an enormous balance of accounts receivable in their financial statements.

Business