BIR rejects POGOs’ lower tax bid

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 05:36:03 +0000

The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has turned down the proposal of the Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs) seeking to lower the income tax payment of their more than 138,000 alien employes.

Instead, Revenue Deputy Commissioner for Operations Arnel Guballa threatened to padlock POGO operations that do not pay correct taxes as ordered by Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez.

He said POGOs’ proposal is not feasible because the Tax Code requires foreign nationals working here to remit 25 percent of their gross income as the final withholding tax.

Online gambling operators have suggested to subject the compensation received by their workers at par with the schedule for salaried individual taxpayers prescribed by the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) Law.

The law exempts the first P250,000 income from taxation.

Guballa said the online gaming
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