BIR Offers Free Seminars at Social Media

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

The office of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) that supervises eastern Pangasinan announces to the public about the free online seminar that will guide new business registrants how to file and pay their taxes and other valuable information they need to know.

The webinar is held every Monday and Thursday of the week at 9:30 A.m.

“This is free and the taxpayers can just tap the Zoom by using their meeting identification (I.D) and the password as provided at our Facebook Page,” Revenue District Office No. 6 Chief Bernadette Mangaoang, who oversees the eight towns and one city’s eastern province, told this writer.

The ID is 268 514 7141 and the user can enter RDO6 as password. Other instruction and information can be seen too on the Facebook Page’s BIR RDO No.6 Urdaneta City, Pangasinan.

Some of the posters and topics there by the tax agency’s personnel are the registration and keeping of accounting records of political party and partylists, Estate Tax Amnesty, Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises Act (CREATE), Certificate of Registration (CoR), Quarterly Percentage Tax Return, Update, Transfer, or Cancellation of Registration, Tax Exemption or Tax Holiday, and other updates on the programs of the BIR.

 Excerpt of the Estate Tax Amnesty that can be seen on that Facebook Page for example says: “The two-year extension of availment of the Estate Tax Amnesty is deemed appropriate in these trying times. It will give the lawful heirs and beneficiaries, especially those who have been financially struggling during this pandemic, more time to settle their Estate Tax obligations without penalties,” -  Bureau of Internal Revenue Commissioner Caesar R. Dulay”.

Meanwhile, the tax goal this year of the Eastern Pangasinan tax office - as imposed to it by the national government - will be P1.741 billion.

“From January to July this year our collection was up by 7.61% (to the given target for that semester),” Mangaoang told this writer.

Mangaoang was optimistic that by the end of the year the P1.741 billion given to her will be eclipsed by the collection aggressively undergone by her staff.