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THE
Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has extended to April
17 the deadline for the filing of income taxes to
selected companies—with mining firms given till April
30—after the agency experienced problems in its
electronic filing and payment systems (eFPs).
In
Revenue Memorandum Circular 32-2008 released Tuesday,
the deadline for most companies to file their income
taxes, the BIR said it had to make the extensions to
April 17, but only to those companies that are enrolled
in the electronic-payment systems.
“Since
sudden manual filing is not expected by taxpayers
required to electronically file and pay…the commissioner
hereby extends until April 17, 2008, the deadline for
filing of all tax returns of eFPS-enrolled taxpayers
whose filing due date falls on April 15, 2008,” the
memorandum said.
The
BIR’s computer system bogged down Tuesday as a result of
a deluge of last-minute taxpayers trying to beat the
deadline for the filing of their returns.
The
memorandum added that for excise-tax purposes, the
permission for manual filing and payment of taxes and
extension of deadline shall be applicable only to
metallic-mineral companies filing their quarterly
excise-tax returns.
“In
connection thereto, prescribed attachments to the
returns, are needless to say, still due for submission
within 15 days from April 15, 2008, following existing
rules and regulations,” the memorandum said.
BIR said
thousands of taxpayers trooped to its offices and
various agent banks to file their returns for 2007.
Banks,
according to BIR deputy commissioner Nelson Aspe,
accommodated tax payers until
5 p.m. Tuesday. |
