What is Value Added Tax (VAT)

What is Value Added Tax (VAT)

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Description

Value-Added Tax is a form of sales tax. It is a tax on consumption levied on the sale, barter, exchange or lease of goods or properties and services in the Philippines and on importation of goods into the Philippines. It is an indirect tax, which may be shifted or passed on to the buyer, transferee or lessee of goods, properties or services.

 

Who are required to file vat returns?

  • Any person or entity who, in the course of his trade or business, sells, barters, exchanges, leases goods or properties and renders services subject to VAT, if the aggregate amount of actual gross sales or receipts exceed One Million Nine Hundred Nineteen Thousand Five Hundred Pesos (P1,919,500.00).
  • A person required to register as VAT taxpayer but failed to register
  • Any person, whether or not made in the course of his trade or business, who imports goods

 

Tax Rates 

  • On sale of goods and properties – twelve percent (12%) of the gross selling price or gross value in money of the goods or properties sold, bartered or exchanged

 

The following sales of real properties are exempt from VAT, namely:

1.  Sale of real properties not primarily held for sale to customers or held for lease in the ordinary course of trade or business;

2.  Sale of real properties utilized for low-cost housing as defined by RA No. 7279, otherwise known as the “Urban Development and Housing Act of 1992” and other related laws, such as RA No. 7835 and RA No. 8763;

3.  Sale of real properties utilized for specialized housing as defined under RA No. 7279, and other related laws, such as RA No. 7835 and RA No. 8763, wherein price ceiling per unit is P225,000.00 or as may from time to time be determined by the HUDCC and the NEDA and other related laws;

4.  Sale of residential lot valued at One Million Five Hundred Thousand Pesos (P1,500,000.00) and below, or house and lot and other residential dwellings valued at Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Pesos (P2,500,000.00) and below where the instrument of sale/ transfer/ disposition was executed on or after July 1, 2005; Provided, that not later than January 31, 2009 and every three (3) years thereafter, the amounts stated herein shall be adjusted to its present value using the Consumer Price Index, as published by the National Statistics Office (NSO); Provided, further, that such adjustment shall be published through revenue regulations to be issued not later than March 31 of each year.

 

Source: http://www.bir.gov.ph/index.php/tax-information/value-added-tax.html (fulltext)