MANILA - The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee on Monday requested the Bureau of Internal Revenue to create a Medium Taxpayer Service and a Digital Taxpayer Service in connection with ongoing efforts to tax foreign vendors of digital services. During the committee hearing on the taxation of online transactions of nonresident foreign corporations (NRFCs), Albay Rep. Joey Salceda said a digital tax unit under the BIR may be necessary to cover mainly online transactions to consolidate all undertakings, information, and representation. "Please relay my request to Commissioner (Caesar) Dulay that the BIR create a Medium Taxpayer Service for enterprises that are not large enough for the Large Taxpayer Services, but who do comprise a substantial amount of business taxes. I also hope to have a Digital Taxpayer Service to complement our efforts to impose VAT and other taxes on digital service providers," Salceda told the BIR. Salceda cited that the Singaporean tax authori
THE chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means asked the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to study how to apply Philippine tax rates on income earned by Filipinos working for US clients, instead of having the US withholding tax rate applied to them. Following a hearing with the…