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Favored enterprises get over P480b in tax perks

Julito G. RadabyJulito G. Rada
July 19, 2021, 7:50 pm
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Fiscal incentives enjoyed by favored enterprises cost the government P481.7 billion in foregone revenues in 2019, or a year before the landmark congressional approval of the law that finally introduced bold reforms in the corporate income tax system, a report to Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III shows.

The Department of Finance said in a statement Monday the amount declined from the P518.7 billion in tax perks given away by the government in 2018 through the various investment promotion agencies and through fiscal incentives granted to cooperatives.

The agency expects future fiscal and non-fiscal incentives to be rationalized to ensure they are performance-based, targeted, time-bound and transparent, following the enactment of the Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises Law in March.

A report of the DOF-Domestic Finance Group showed that of the P481.7 billion worth of incentives granted to a select group of corporations in 2019, about P149.28 billion or almost a third were in the form of income tax incentives.

Assistant Secretary Ma. Teresa Habitan of the DFG said at a recent DOF executive committee meeting these included income tax holiday accounting for P68.4 billion (14.2 percent); special income tax rate for IPA-registered enterprises accounting for P66.41 billion (13.8 percent); and income tax incentives for cooperatives accounting for P14.47 billion (3 percent),

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The incentives for the value-added tax accounted for P283.45 billion (58.8 percent) of the incentives; exemptions from customs duties, P47.59 billion (9.88 percent); and the percentage tax incentive availed by cooperatives, P1.38 billion (0.29 percent), she said.

The study covered 11,431 enterprises that filed their tax returns, including 5,749 IPA-registered firms and 5,682 were cooperatives.

Habitan said that of those that availed of income tax incentives, 3,083 were IPA-registered companies and 4,371 were cooperatives.

These amounted to a total of 7,454 or 57.5 percent of the 11,431 enterprises that were granted income tax perks, she said.

The various IPAs include the Board of Investments, Regional Board of Investments-Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Philippine Economic Zone Authority, Bases Conversion and Development Authority, Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority, Clark Development Corp., Poro Point Management Corp., Cagayan Economic Zone Authority, Zamboanga City Special Economic Zone Authority, Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and Freeport Authority, Authority of the Freeport Area of Bataan and Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority.

Data showed that in 2019, the manufacturing sector took the biggest share at 66.7 percent of the total tax incentives, amounting to P321.3 billion.

The services and energy sectors were granted P114.8 billion (23.83 percent) and P26.36 billion (5.47 percent) of incentives, respectively.

Tax perks for the other sectors, such as agriculture and fisheries, amounted to P19.24 billion or 3.99 percent of the total tax expenditures for 2019, Habitan said.

She said cooperatives received P32.2 billion worth of tax incentives in 2019. A majority of these cooperatives were service cooperatives in the banking and financing industries.

These foregone revenues from tax incentives were based on the perks granted to registered enterprises before the enactment of the CREATE law.

Under the CREATE law, the grant and administration of incentives were rationalized to ensure that the perks received by registered enterprises are benefiting the economy. With the corporate income tax rate and tax incentives rationalized under CREATE, micro, small and medium enterprises which employ a majority of Filipino workers in the country, are the law’s biggest beneficiaries.

The law cuts the regular corporate income tax rate by 10 percentage points, from 30 to 20 percent, for domestic corporations with a taxable income of P5 million and below, and with total assets of not more than P100 million.

All other domestic corporations will benefit from an immediate reduction of the corporate income tax rate from 30 percent to 25 percent. Foreign corporations paying the regular rate will also enjoy a reduced 25-percent CIT rate.

Corporate taxpayers whose gross sales or receipts do not exceed the VAT-exempt threshold of P3 million and are subject to the 3-percent percentage tax will only pay 1 percent instead from July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2023.

CREATE also introduces more flexibility in the grant of fiscal and non-fiscal incentives, which will be critical as the country competes for high-value investments from overseas now and in the post-pandemic era. For enterprises that undertake activities considered priority by the government, CREATE provides for a generous incentives menu that offers tax discounts on the basis of their strategic benefit to the country, such as their ability to create jobs and promote countryside development.

IPAs maintain their key investment promotion functions and powers under their respective charters, but the Fiscal Incentives Review Board will have oversight power over them. The governance of tax incentives was placed under the FIRB, which is chaired by the DOF and co-chaired by the Department of Trade and Industry.

The FIRB will ensure accountability and transparency in the grant of tax incentives to private corporations.

Under CREATE, a strategic investment priority plan will be formulated every three years to identify priority projects or activities that will receive the new set of generous incentives. These are projects and activities offering quality jobs and technology transfer and introducing new industries that would allow the economy to flourish.

Tags: corporate income taxDepartment of FinanceFinance Secretary Carlos Dominguez IIIFiscal incentivestax perks
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