By Mortz C. Ortigoza
If the Revenue District Office -No. 4 of the Bureau of Internal Revenue under the helm of its chief Ernesto Mangabat and his assistant chief Aldrin Camba immediately acted on my complaint and penalized by P20,000 each of the more than 80 stall and kiosk owners in 2019 in the then newly opened SM Center- Dagupan for operating without issuing an official receipts (O.R) to their customers, I expect RDO- No. 6 Chief Helen Leaño and RDO- No. 6 Assistant Chief Lolita Salayog Chief to sanction Fresh Fruits, a huge Chinese owned suppliers of imported fruits, that does business in Barangay Nancayasan, Urdaneta City in Pangasinan.
I did not only find its Chinese owner rude in shouting to one of its swarming customers who patronized his warehouse that host three giant cold storage but found he did not issue an O.R from the BIR when my wife and I bought our fruits there.
Please see the photo on this article of its unofficial receipt similar to the hundreds of thousands probably it issued to its customers at the expense of the government.
RDO-6 Chief Leaño, that covers the thriving Northern Luzon’s fruit hub’s Urdaneta City, proved me wrong that under your stint countless businessmen like another huge fruits importer’s Harvest in Xentromart not only issue temporary receipts instead of the O.R for our purchase but would not replace the spoiled fruits like Australian oranges and imported grapes to the unwitting customers who discovered them when they arrived to their stores hours away from the place of the seller. Mind you the buyers are not even allowed to inspect the contents of the boxes they purchased thus the brouhahas of the unwelcome replacement of the spoiled procurement.
“Hinde po puweding palitan ang damage kasi malayo ang pinagbilhan din namin,” the importer-owner or staff of Harvest would tell their sorry clients who came from various cities and towns of the mammoth Pangasinan province.
Now, I am calling too the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Pangasinan Director Natalia B. Dalaten, the missus of my friend Regional Trial Court Judge Julius Dalaten, to check this store about the similar complaints of the buyers.
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Oh by the way, I want to see the documents attesting the legality of these Chinese like the owner of Fresh Fruits, who haphazardly speak Filipino, from the Bureau of Immigration in Dagupan City.
Fresh Fruits is one of the mammoth four warehouses that supplies foreign fruits in Northern Luzon. They compete with those fruit behemoths in Divisoria and other parts of Metro Manila.
What these Mainland Chinese traders are doing aside from allegedly cheating with millions of pesos of taxes our hard pressed government aggravated by the pandemic’s COVID-19, they deprive the legitimate Filipino businessmen of a healthy competition.
Some of these Chinese traders were raided and caught by the law enforcers maintaining illegally a Shabu (illegal drug’s metamphetamine hydrochloride) facility like in Burgos, Pangasinan and fake cigarette factories in Pangasinan and Pampanga provinces like in the villages of Lubao, Villasis (two), Mangaldan, and Bugallon towns in the guise of businessmen running a piggery or feed mill.
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By the way, what are the penalty and jail time if those business establishment failed to issue an official receipts from the BIR and fool the government through double or multiple receipts?
As provided by the National Internal Revenue Code, it says that “Any person who, being required under Section 237 to issue receipts or sales or commercial invoices, fails or refuses to issue such receipts of invoices, issues receipts or invoices that do not truly reflect and/or contain all the information required to be shown therein, or uses multiple or double receipts or invoices, shall, upon conviction for each act or omission, be punished by a fine of not less than One thousand pesos (P1,000) but not more than Fifty thousand pesos (P50,000) and suffer imprisonment of not less than two (2) years but not more than four (4) years”.
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PHOTOS: The non-BIR receipt of Fresh Fruits, the facade of its warehouse and its signage in Brgy. Nancayasan, Urdaneta City, Pangasinan.
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