RMC 65-2021: Guidelines When Filing For Amendments

On April 30, 2021, the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) released Revenue Memorandum Circular No. 65-2021.

This RMC was shared to describe the guidelines required in order to file for amendments to Quarterly Percentage Tax Returns. This was due to the change in tax rate from 3% to 1% following the Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprise Act. (C.R.E.A.T.E. Law). ‍

Amendments Guidelines Example

For this example, we’ll be using Juan as a Filipino Taxpayer who recently filed his Income Tax Returns using the old 3% Percentage Tax rate for the 3rd and 4th quarter of 2020:

Subject Line3rd Quarter of 20204th Quarter of 2020Total Income/ReceiptsPHP 1,200,000PHP 1,700,000Percentage Tax PaidPHP 36,000PHP 51,000

With the decrease in tax rate from 3% to 1%, Juan wanted to amend this return to get the excess tax paid back to him.

As illustrated in the image above, using the 3% tax rate,  Juan had paid PHP 36,000 when filing for the 3rd Quarter of 2020.

As illustrated in the image above, Juan will use line 17 to reflect the overpayment amount from the 3rd Quarter of 2020. This is because Juan had paid PHP 36,000 due to the 3% tax rate, but with the new 1% tax rate, he should have only paid PHP 12,000. So his overpayment amounts to PHP 24,000.

Assuming that Juan did NOT entirely consume the excess payment, he can continue to carry over the excess payment until there is no more remaining balance.

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