The House Committee on Ways and Means will look into the probable tax liabilities of DITO Telecommunity Corporation, in response to allegations that it is bypassing its interconnection agreements with other telecommunications companies.
THE House Committee on Ways and Means will look into the probable tax liabilities of DITO Telecommunity Corporation, in response to allegations that it is bypassing its interconnection agreements with other telecommunications companies, causing foregone interconnection payments of around P2.5 million daily, or around 1,000 international voice calls allegedly masked as local calls.
Under Section 120 of the National Internal Revenue Code, there is a 10-percent tax on “every overseas dispatch, message or conversation transmitted from the Philippines by telephone, telegraph, telewriter exchange, wireless and other communication equipment service.” “By masking the calls as local, theyare effectively doing services smuggling. I am all for cheap international calls, because OFWs need to connect to their loved ones here. But, we cannot condone nefarious means of doing business, especially if it deprives the country of precious tax revenues, the lifeblood of government,” he said.
Salceda also said that “if the revenues are not that high, and it proves to be a challenge for Filipino companies to go global and digital, I could even recommend its repeal [of Section 120]. But for now, the law is the law.”Salceda also said that it’s high time that the committee discuss this provision, “because there is an interpretation that advertising payments by Filipino companies to Facebook, Google, and other advertising venues are local incomes thus taxable.
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