Essay On Taxation In The Philippines

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A system of government is extremely necessary to every society and without it, the people will not be able to take pleasure in the benefits of a civilized and orderly society. However, the government will not be able to exist and provide a vast array of public services to its people without a system of funding, therefore; mutuality of support between the people and the government is the ultimate basis of taxation.
The government has its basic needs and rights which co-exist with its creation and one of these rights is the right to sustenance through the power of taxation which enforced proportional contribution from its subject in order to sustain itself. According to Banggawan (2016), its scope is widely regarded as comprehensive, plenary, …show more content…

9504 otherwise known as National Internal Revenue Code (NIRC) of 1997 which took effect until last December 31, 2017. Effective last January 01, 2018, the declared policy of the state is the RA No. 10963 which shall be known as the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) which was signed into law by President Roa Rodrigo Duterte last December 19, 2017. According to Manasan (2017), the rationale to reform the personal income tax (PIT) system has been anchored on two issues, namely: (i) the non-indexation of tax brackets to inflation, resulting in bracket creep; and (ii) the high tax burden of Filipino taxpayers relative to their ASEAN counterparts. The TRAIN Law contains amendments to the provisions of the NIRC of 1997 on individual income taxation, passive income for both individuals and corporations, estate tax, donor’s tax, value-added tax (VAT), excise tax, and documentary stamp tax (DST), among others. But for the scope of this study, it only focuses on the provision and amendments on individual income taxation contained in the Package 1 of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) bill or Republic Act No.

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