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25% Advance Sales Tax - Timers Defined

BIR Ruling No. 013-79 • Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) Issuances • Rulings (Numbered) • Mar 27, 1979

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March 27, 1979 BIR RULING NO. 013-79 25% Advance sales tax timers defined In reply to your letter dated November 16, 1978, please be informed that the timers imported by you, are instruments which do not only tell the time but also have an industrial function of automatically switching off electric equipment on which the same are connected. Accordingly, they are analogous or similar to watches and clocks, in which case, they are subject to 25% advance sales tax on the total landed cost thereof, plus 50% mark-up, pursuant to Section 193(b), in relation to Section 197.II, both of the Tax Code of 1977, as amended by P.D. No. 1358. casia

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