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Date: Dec. 21, 2022, 10:06 p.m.
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Date: 2022-12-22 08:44:37.000000
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Published by Bureau of Internal Revenue(BIR) on Dec. 21, 2022.
Requested from BIR by J. Lorbes at 10:06 PM on
Dec. 21, 2022.
Purpose: For Australian Computer Society skills assessment for my permanent residency application.
Date of Coverage: 01/01/2008 - 02/02/2018
Tracking no: #BIR-752860086070
I would like to request for copies of my Income Tax Return from 2008 to 2018. These are required for my Australian Computer Society skills assessment for my permanent residency application. The documents can be in PDF file format and sent to the email address "[email protected]" which was used to register to the FOI website. Thank you.
December 22, 2022 Dear Ms. Esguerra: Greetings! Thank you for your request dated Dec 21, 2022 under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch. Your request You asked for Income Tax Return and/or BIR Form 2316. Response to your request In connection with your request through eFOI Portal pertaining to the request for a copy of BIR Form 2316 as a Substitute Income Tax Return for Taxable Year/s 2008-2018. Please be informed that such request cannot be granted by the Revenue District Office (RDO) since the aforesaid BIR Withholding Tax Certificates were issued in 2008 to 2018 and records of the RDO on those periods are already unavailable since we follow strictly the four (4) year retention period based on existing revenue issuances of the BIR (Revenue Memorandum Circular 73-2008). Hence, you may ask your previous employer/s for the copy/ies of your Certificate of Compensation Payment/ Tax Withheld (BIR Form 2316) because all taxpayers are required to preserve their accounting records for the period of 10 years in accordance with the Revenue Memorandum Circular No. 29-2019. Thank you. Respectfully yours, FOI Receiving Officer Public Information and Education Division