The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it will reduce its fees for corporate document requests by 50 percent beginning July 1, 2025.
It said the move is in line with commitment made by new SEC chairman Francis Lim during the recent turnover ceremony, where he vowed to reduce fees to improve access to corporate information and ease financial burden of the corporate sector, particularly the micro, small and medium enterprises
“The reduced rates are in line with the commitment of the SEC to allow for greater access to corporate data through a fair and sustainable pricing mechanism, while avoiding undue financial burden to the corporate sector and the general public,” the corporate regulator said.
The SEC said in a statement it issued Memorandum Circular No. 6, Series of 2025, providing for the reduction of fees and charges for IT-related services under SEC Memorandum Circular No. 10, Series of 2023.
The new rates apply to both physical and digital copies of documents filed by registered entities with the SEC.
Under the new rates, company filings such as articles of incorporation, by-laws, amended articles or by-laws, general information sheets, resolutions, registration data sheets and deeds of assignment will now cost P1,000, down from the previous rate of P2,000.
Authenticated copies of other documents may be purchased for P50 per page, down from P100 per page previously.
Plain copies of the same documents will cost P750 each, instead of the old rate of P1,500. Other documents will be priced at P25 per page, down from P50.
Digital copies of these documents, available through the SEC’s Electronic SEC Education, Analysis and Research Computing Hub or eSEARCH, will also follow the 50-percent reduction. Authenticated digital copies will be priced at P625 pesos each, down from P1,250, while plain digital copies will be reduced to P375 from P750.
Fees for the use of the SEC API Marketplace, which allows the automated transfer of corporate data between applications, will remain unchanged.
The SEC offers two packages for SEC API Services, priced at P10,000 for 100 API calls and P50,000 for 1,000 API calls.
