How to compute Percentage Tax in the Philippines

This article aims to guide businessmen and professionals in computing their percentage tax payable to the BIR. Your humble friend here is also subject to percentage tax. Accordingly, I’m also paying percentage tax every month aside from quarterly and annual income tax payables. Percentage tax, like Value Added Tax (VAT), is also considered as a business tax rather than an income tax. This means that whether you generate income or incur a loss, as long as you have sales or revenue, you must pay a percentage tax. This is because business taxes are taxes based on gross sales or receipts rather than based on net income (before income tax). Read more

How to Compute Annual Income Tax for Self-employed Taxpayers in the Philippines

The 15th day of April is an annual great event for both the taxpayers and the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) in the Philippines. This is the day that we, taxpayers should remit a portion of our income to the bureau. This portion or burden is what we called the “income tax”. This is our penalty for doing-well in business. I mean, this is our obligation to share to the government a portion of the earnings we’ve got in doing great in business.

As the deadline is near approaching, I’m also trying to compute my income tax due for the year 2008 as a self employed professional. And as an accountant and a blogger, I make this post to aid readers how to compute tax for individual taxpayers. So let us start now before the deadline comes! First let us secure an Annual Income Tax Return (BIR Form 1701) for self-employed taxpayers (including those with both business and compensation income. Click here to download a pdf file of BIR form 1701. Read more