Sep 222014
AT THE start of the year, the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) issued Revenue Regulations No. (RR) 1-2014 and Revenue Memorandum Circular No. (RMC) 5-2014, which tackled the submission of the alphabetical list (alphalist) of employees and list of payees on income payments subject to creditable and final withholding taxes of all withholding agents. These issuances require that complete names of payees be specified in the alphalists. Using words such as “various payees” and “PCD nominees” where income payments and taxes withheld are lumped into one single amount shall not be allowed and failure to follow such prescribed format shall disqualify the related expenses from being deductible for income tax purposes.