5 doctors to pay P450 M more in taxes

[delprado]

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5 doctors to pay P450 M more in taxes

First posted 01:18am (Mla time) Aug 03, 2005
By Cynthia D. Balana
Inquirer News Service

FIVE Manila doctors have agreed to amend their tax declarations and pay additional taxes amounting to at least P450 million.

The Bureau of Internal Revenue said the doctors’ positive act to cooperate with its effort to raise money for the government came barely a month after the bureau held tax briefings for medical practitioners from the Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital last June 29.

According to BIR officials who refused to name the taxpayers, the doctors filed their amended returns for 2000 to 2004 last July 8. The returns reflected substantial increases in their income tax payments.

The doctors also made an assurance that they would continue to support the bureau’s tax programs.

The BIR commended the doctor’s “laudable act” of voluntary compliance and for setting a good example among their colleagues in the medical profession.

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... I couldn't imagine how much each doctor have earned in a year.... Sana wag mapunta sa bulsa lang nung mga pulitiko yong ibabayad nung 5 doctor na to....

[kimpOy]

sabi na nga ba mali ang pinag aralan ko eh...

[BlueBimmer]

bwisit na commerce degree ko kahit major sa data management walang kwenta...mali rin course ko hehe

[theveed]

parang pinalabas na "model" tax payers sila, teka, nagevade na sila for 4 years hehe...

[5Speed]

hmmm ako rin..... mali ang linya ko....

si doc otep kaya in 10 yrs time, magkano ang babayarang tax?

[chain]

andami nilang pera ah... tsk tsk

[oldblue]

sigurado mga CEO/Director yan ng mga malalaking ospital

[boybi]

pwede bang pre-med ang engineering?

[mikey177]

Those doctors might be popular surgeons or hospital board members, and are therefore the exception rather than the rule. Madami pa ring doktor na naghihirap sa Pilipinas, lalo na sa probinsya, kasama na ang misis ko dyan. She couldn't make in five years what one of those doctors pays in taxes for one year... and yes, we pay our taxes promptly and correctly.

[mikaztro]

Is that for real? P450M for the 5 doctors? That is P90M a year or P750,000 a month. Whooah! Baka naman P45M for the 5 doctors. It's unbelievable na mag de-declare ng tama mga iyon. just kidding....

[boybi]

Is that for real? P450M for the 5 doctors? That is P90M a year or P750,000 a month. Whooah! Baka naman P45M for the 5 doctors. It's unbelievable na mag de-declare ng tama mga iyon. just kidding....

P450M for the 5 doctors, which is P90M for each of the doctors. around P18M per year.

baka naman after paying this amended tax return, magdeclare na sila ng retirement para zero tax na ang babayaran for the rest of their lives while still doing consultancy in major hospitals.

[smooth]

Is that for real? P450M for the 5 doctors? That is P90M a year or P750,000 a month. Whooah! Baka naman P45M for the 5 doctors. It's unbelievable na mag de-declare ng tama mga iyon. just kidding....

i agree. my wife and i are both physicians and i don't think posible ang taxes na yan. at 450M/5 years/5doctors that's about 18M a year in taxes. i asked my accountant friend and he said for you to have 18M in taxes (a year), your yearly gross income should be about 51.4M. imposible

[BlueBimmer]

baka mga top surgeons+Big time hospital shareholder+kung ano pa. 50M per yr!! dpat naka murcielago n ferrari na mga yan hehe

[mrpink]

i asked my accountant friend and he said for you to have 18M in taxes (a year), your yearly gross income should be about 51.4M. imposible

these guys are probably businessmen by occupation but hold a medical degree .. yung mga tipong mga ahente ng philips na nagbebenta ng kung anong machine para sa nuclear medicine na sinu-swelduhan ng $$.

[zero]

dra. lee (o.b. gyne) ang alam kong pinakamaraming pasyente dyan sa lourdes hospital.
mura daw maningil. ang bayad daw kasi sa kanya ay sa unang check up lang at sa araw na ng panganganak ang kasunod. grabe daw ang pila dyan araw-araw.
siguro isa siya dun sa limang doctor sa news??

[jvdejesus05]

takot lang ng mga yan magbayad ng mas malaki kapag nalaman ng BIR ang tunay na income nila... anyway, kahit 4 years na silang nagtax evade, wala naman nakukulong sa utang...

[mikaztro]

Yes, walang nakukulong sa utang pero meron nakukulong sa Tax evasion. Remember Al Capone?

[falken]

Sabi na nga ba mali ang napili kong kurso. 450 million TAX PA LANG YON!!!

[nugundam93]

mali rin kurso ko...hahaha.

[bilog]

dami pala nating nagkamali sa kurso... Pero kung magaral ako ulit and take Medicine by the time i finish 40+ na ako.