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Date: July 21, 2023, 8:02 a.m.
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Date: 2023-07-21 12:47:05.000000
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Published by Bureau of Internal Revenue(BIR) on July 21, 2023.
Requested from BIR by N. Acejo at 08:02 AM on
July 21, 2023.
Purpose: US immigration purposes
Date of Coverage: 05/01/2005 - 05/22/2015
Tracking no: #BIR-290076217049
Hi, I would like to request certified copies of my BIR ITR from 2006 to 2015 while I was employed under my previous employer Columban College, Inc. Since I am using this for my immigration. Thank you.
July 21, 2023 Dear Ms. Acejo: Greetings! Thank you for your request dated Jul 21, 2023 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 copies. Response to your request Please be informed that your request for a copy/copies of your BIR Form No. 2316 for the Calendar Years 2005 to 2015 cannot be granted/provided by the Revenue District Office (RDO) because the 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). The available year of record of documents/files at the RDO is from calendar year 2020 to 2022. Hence, you may ask your previous for the copy/copies of your 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, FOI Receiving Officer Public Information and Education Division