The EOPT Act aims to simplify tax payment processes, improve compliance, enhance transparency, and boost revenue collection.
Key Points:
- The EOPT Act classifies businesses into four categories based on annual gross sales, providing special benefits to micro and small businesses.
- Taxpayers can now file and pay their taxes electronically or manually at various authorized locations, making tax payments more convenient.
- Businesses are required to keep their financial records for five years instead of ten, reducing storage and data management costs.
- New deadlines are set for processing tax refunds, and the VAT refund process is simplified with risk-based categorization.
- VAT calculation now uses “gross sales” for both goods and services, with invoices replacing official receipts for documentation.
- The EOPT Act removes several compliance requirements, such as the annual registration fee and withholding for expense deductions, and exempts OFWs from filing income tax returns for foreign income.
- The BIR will develop an integrated digital system for all tax services, simplifying processes and benefiting micro and small taxpayers.
- VAT-registered sellers must issue VAT invoices for all transactions, detailing seller and buyer information, transaction details, and VAT breakdown, replacing the previous requirement for Official Receipts for services and leases.
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