90% of PH professionals tax evaders

[170kphlang]

ironic how they call most professionals tax evaders, when in reality the tax we all pay (right and undeclared) evades us and goes into somebody eles pockets.. kaya minsan hindi mo din masisi na di magbayad ng tama yung iba

[A121]

BIR mismo hitik sa corruption. A friend who is an engineer who used to pay the right amount to BIR long ago no longer do so because the BIR examiner will just harass him and will look for tiny bit of wrong doing even if he declares them all. The catch? Pay up ("Sobre") and we won't bother you.

And the BIR RD... oh golly they got paid big amounts of money as "Areglo." Kawawa mga employee, kaltas Wtax pero di naman tama ang declaration ng company sa BIR.

VERY MUCH TRUE. Minsan natatawa nga ako dahil yung iba kong officemate na nagresign at nagsubmit ng tamang ITR eh sinisita ng BIR na di nagbabayad ng tax. Sarap hambalusin nitong BIR.

[111prez]

Pa audit nga ng income tax returns ng mga nasa mataas na posisyon sa gobyerno ngayon nung mga professionals pa sila

Pag tama ang binayad nilang tax noon, may karapatan silang mag daldal at mag sigaw tungkol dto.

Kung hindi, tumahimik sila

[alakdan168]

I think that instead of besmirching the reputations of professional by implying they are tax cheats, the BIR should work on the tax structure. Sure, an employee-teacher definitely pays more taxes than a practicing professional - not because the professional cheated but because that is the nature of the tax law

An employee's tax computation is based on GROSS salary (receipt) less personal and additional exemptions. A practicing professional's income tax is computed based on GROSS receipts less personal and additional exemptions LESS itemized expenses or the optional standard deduction ( 40% of gross receipt). Granting both employee and practicing professional receive the same amount every month, the mere status of the taxpayer (employee vs registered professional) would make the professional pay lesser tax even without cheating.

[[archie]]

90% professionals tax and evaders and 99% of politicians are corrupt.

[Retz]

mukhang ang pangkaraniwang empleyado lang ang nagbabayad ng tamang buwis.

[wowiesy]

+1

A lot of uncollected income taxes come from the "underground economy" like tiangge operators, single proprietors of jeeps, taxis, FX, UV Express, sidewalk vendors. The BIR could possibly raise as much as Php 1Billion in taxes in a year from this sector if they really put their mettle to it.

bang for buck yan.. mas efficient mag bantay ng malalaki ma kolekta.. rather than sa marami pero konti lang each ang makolekta..

[wowiesy]

The other problem with the BIR is that they're just so fixated on hitting targets that they don't seem to be working on the one real reason why they are not hitting targets: corruption (especially within the BIR ranks).

ako.. ang tingin ko.. okay ang scare tactics nila.. kung sabayan nila ng education campaign... how to compute the right taxes... para walang room na mangotong ang insider ng BIR... para ma encourage yung taxpayer na magbayad ng tama... pero kung after teaching taxpayer how to cmpute.. tapos hihirit pa BIR ng dagdag dahil sa may hindi naisama sa computation.. then di talaga ma encourage yung taxpayer na magbayad / mag compute ng maayos...

part nito yung simplifiying the tax structure...

tsaka nya sabayan ng scare tactics.. kasi . di na sya nagkulang sa education ng taxpayer..

ang problema... the target setting.. and the attitude / environment they setup... lalo lang maiipit ang nagbabayad ng taxes (whether tama na ang bayad nya o hindi.. ).. kasi tumaas ang target.. so tataas ang kokolektahin (expected) kahit yung base ng pinag cocomputan ay di naman tumaas... sa pagtaas ng target.. double edge yan for BIR personnel (in the era na ang taxpayer di alam ang tamang compute).. itataas ng BIR personnel ang compute / assessment... works both ways for him.. helps him meet his target sa office... helps him also meet his target sa pag paparte partehan sa mga kasindikato... ang naiipit ng todo.. taxpayer...

taxpayer education + scare tactics + serious / publicized anti corruption driver sa internal org nila...

di naman nila control ang pork barrel / congress so wala sila magawa dun..

[jhnkvn]

Basta isa lang alam ko: offshore accounts is my best friend

[yebo]

+1

A lot of uncollected income taxes come from the "underground economy" like tiangge operators, single proprietors of jeeps, taxis, FX, UV Express, sidewalk vendors. The BIR could possibly raise as much as Php 1Billion in taxes in a year from this sector if they really put their mettle to it.

taxi, jeepney and fx operators have to file a yearly financial report to the ltfrb, and the tax is computed from that annual financial report. paano ka makakadaya e alam naman ng ltfrb magkano ang boundary, less expenses which require receipts. may taxis and fx dati erpats ko kaya alam ko.

and for those driver/operators, syempre ang reported income is also based on the boundary amountonly. bakit naman nya ire-report pati yung sobra sa boundary e yun ang "salary" nya as driver. syempre kita lang ng operator ang reported.