THE 150,000-strong Philippine National Police (PNP) has remitted P3.88 billion worth of individual taxes to the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) in 2014.
Citing records from its finance service, PNP Spokesman Chief Supt. Generoso R. Cerbo Jr. said total taxes withheld by the PNP in 2014 amounted to P3,883,039,689.85, or an average of P25,886.93 tax withheld per individual PNP taxpayer in 2014.
Withholding tax on compensation is the tax withheld from income payments to individuals receiving purely compensation income.
In the PNP, individual tax withheld is automatically deducted from the monthly salary.
The taxes withheld become obligations of the PNP to the BIR that is remitted to the account of the tax-collection agency every year, Cerbo explained.
According to BIR records, self-employed individuals and professionals in the private sector paid only an average of P18,813 income tax last year.
This was only slightly higher than the average P16,407 income tax they paid in 2010.