BY JUN RAMIREZ
The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has continued filing tax evasion charges against suspected tax cheats amid the coronavirus-19 pandemic.
The latest batch of criminal complaints was filed on Aug. 27 against 10 corporations based in Makati City following the filing of similar charges the other day against 10 other Manila business taxpayers.
In separate formal complaints filed with the Department of Justice, Makati Revenue Regional Director Maridur Rosario identified the respondents as Digiline, Marathon Publishing, Ideaworks, N & N Construction, Infrontier Philippines, Alliance Technologies, Goldmark Service Network, Medcore Pharma, Corporate Image Dimensions and Systems Standards.
Top officers of the said companies including the president and treasurer were also included in the charge sheets.
Ms. Rosario said she recommended to higher authorities the filing of tax evasion charges against the accused for allegedly ignoring strings of assessment and collection notices to settle tax debts totalling to P123 million.
The tax liabilities covering mostly income and value-added taxes were incurred in 2014 and prior years.
BIR Deputy Commissioner for Operations Arnel Guballa said the Run-After-Tax-Evaders campaign will continue without let-up as part of the bigger program of hitting this year’s collection target of P1.7 trillion. (Jun Ramirez)
