For the initial registration with the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) in the Philippines, the simple rules to determine whether an entrepreneur or an entity should register under Other Percentage Tax (OPT) or Value Added Tax (VAT) may be enumerated as follows:
OPT by nature.
Industry covered by other percentage tax by nature are required to register under OPT regardless of gross receipts or gross sales. Examples of this are common carries – operators of public utility buses, jeepneys, taxis and the likes, life insurance premiums, banks and non-bank finance intermediaries, etc.;
VAT by nature
Industry covered by the VAT system may either register under OPT or VAT depending on expected gross receipts or gross sales within the 12-month period whether or not it would exceed P1,919,500.00.
Example, when it registered in 2009 as VAT, actual gross receipts as seller of service or gross sales as seller of goods amounted to P1,000,000.00, 2010 only P1,400,000.00. Can he downgrade registration from VAT to non-VAT?
Answer is no because of the rule on irrevocability of optional VAT registration within three year period. It would continue as VAT registered.
Those are the basic rules that every entrepreneur should take note of. Failure to apply the above rules may either lead to payment of penalties or any other disadvantage of the entrepreneur.
Reference:
Revenue Regulations No. 16-2005, as amended
Note: Article posted prior to TRAIN or R.A. No. 10963 effective Jan. 2018.
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