The Manila Times

Why we need a separate

- Euney Marie J. Mata-Perez is a CPA-lawyer and the managing

bills cover all “internal revenue

The requiremen­ts under a gen too complicate­d for heirs to comply with if they are imposed on it will not work if the heirs will be abroad and are no longer taxpay- tax settlement is always beset with complicate­d family issues.

single tax amnesty applicatio­n by a separate taxpayer. Unless the general amnesty law will allow a

for the heirs to enjoy it.

While a general tax amnesty will definitely bring in revenue collec it might be more complicate­d to avail of than the straightfo­rward estate tax amnesty contemplat­ed under HB - time for our legislator­s to deliberate on the bills. It will thus be simpler and easier to pass a separate estate tax amnesty program. Such program of unlocking properties and spurring economic activity in the country.

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