No More Mayor’s Permit for BIR License’s Application

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

URDANETA CITY, Pangasinan -  Requirement of a business or mayor’s permit is no longer necessary for a trader to apply for a license in the Bureau of Internal Revenue.

Revenue Officer Love Joy Morales said that a taxpayer is only required to accomplish the following: Certificate from the Department of Trade & Industry, valid identification, filling-up the necessary data needed on the BIR Form 1901, and registration fee of P500.

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Morales pronouncement was quoted by this newspaper on the Facebook Page of Revenue District Office No. 6 based here.

 The BIR released Revenue Memorandum Circular (RMC) No. 57-2020 removing Mayor’s Permit* (MP) as one of the mandatory requirements for registering a business with the agency. The removal is part of the streamlined registration requirements and revised documentary requirements checklist to further ease doing business in the Philippines.

The tax agency cautioned the public that the Mayor’s Permit is still a requirement for full business registration in the Philippines. It is only removed as a prerequisite for registering with BIR. As such, business owners can register their business with BIR while obtaining their Mayor’s Permit from their Local Government Unit (LGU) at the same time. 

Meanwhile, the BIR in eastern Pangasinan is tasked by the national government to collect P2.2 billion this year.

 According to its RDO No. 6 Chief Maria Bernadette Mangaoang that last year her office chalked up P1.8 billion collections.

The tax office covers fifteen towns and one city.

The chief of the BIR in central Pangasinan told recently this writer that he was ordered early this year to collect P4.9 billion for January to December this year.

Revenue District Office No. 4 Chief Gil Vinluan covers fourteen towns and two cities in the central part of the province.