{"id":258430,"date":"2020-06-18T01:03:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T05:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=258430"},"modified":"2020-06-18T01:03:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T05:03:58","slug":"bir-to-online-biz-register-to-become-legitimate-entity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/06\/18\/bir-to-online-biz-register-to-become-legitimate-entity\/","title":{"rendered":"BIR to online biz: register to become legitimate entity"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_243401\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-243401\" style=\"width: 2880px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2880px-Intramurosjf0746_32.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-243401 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2880px-Intramurosjf0746_32.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2880\" height=\"2160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2880px-Intramurosjf0746_32.jpg 2880w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2880px-Intramurosjf0746_32-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2880px-Intramurosjf0746_32-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2880px-Intramurosjf0746_32-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2880px) 100vw, 2880px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-243401\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guballa further said the call for business owners with digital operations to register with BIR has been made since 2013. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=31049099\">photo by Ramon FVelasquez &#8211; Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Registering with the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) will ensure that businesses are operating legally, BIR Deputy Commissioner Arnel Guballa said.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview during the Laging Handa PH program aired over state-owned PTV Wednesday, Guballa said small business owners need not worry about registration and about paying taxes if their earnings do not exceed PHP250,000 annually since they are exempted from paying income tax.<\/p>\n<p>He said registration fee for online sellers is PHP500 and that is the only fee they need to pay unless they do not qualify for tax exemption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we want to tax are the big businesses involved in digital transactions like Lazada and those operated by foreign entities like Netflix,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Guballa further said the call for business owners with digital operations to register with BIR has been made since 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just reiterated recently because the number of businesses engaged on online selling rose during the lockdown,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Guballa said what the government wants is to collect value-added tax (VAT) from big businesses using digital transactions.<\/p>\n<p>For service providers that have main offices overseas like Netflix, Guballa said tax that will be collected is VAT since its service is being consumed locally.<\/p>\n<p>Registration of all businesses is the first step for BIR to know who to run after, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to know the total population (of those using digital transactions),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Registering with the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) will ensure that businesses are operating legally, BIR Deputy Commissioner &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":243401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","mauthors-joann-villanueva","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258431,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258430\/revisions\/258431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}