Sale of Real Property under CMP - Tax-Exempt

October 7, 1993 BIR RULING NO. 395-93 SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER CMP TAX-EXEMPT 21 (e) 246-93 395-93 Ms. Mary Mediatrix Ticzon-Fernandez Butuan City This refers to your letter dated June 3, 1993 in effect requesting for a ruling that the sale by Mrs. Joaquina Rosales-Ticzon and Mr. Mariano A. Rosales of their real properties located at Langihan (Barangay Obrero), Butuan City, to the Mother of Perpetual Help Homeowners Association, Inc., a non-stock, non-profit community organization duly registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in accordance with the Community Mortgage Program (CMP) initiated by the National Housing Authority is exempt from capital gains tax pursuant to Section 32(a) and (b) of R.A. 7279 which was approved on March 24, 1992 and published in the March 28, 1992 issue of the Philippine Times Journal and Malaya , newspapers of general circulation. cdtech It appears that the Community Mortgage Program (CMP) is a mortgage financing program of the National Home Mortgage Finance Corporation (NHMFC) which assists legally organized associations of underprivileged and homeless citizens to purchase and develop a tract of land under the concept of community ownership; that through a Letter-Guaranty by said Government Financing Institution the landowner executed a Deed of Sale to the Association which stands as the borrower and debtor to the extent of the total amount paid by NHMFC to the landowner; that in the instant case, the property being sold to the Mother of Perpetual Help Homeowners Association, Inc. is covered by TCT Nos. 1506 and 1507; that the said transaction was certified by the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council as an approved project under the Community Mortgage Program (CMP) of the government. Field investigation conducted in this case disclosed that the two (2) parcels of lot containing an aggregate area of 8,194 square meters of residential lots are to be sold to the members of the Mother of Perpetual Help Homeowners Association, Inc., who are qualified beneficiaries of the socialized housing program of the government. In reply, please be informed that pursuant to Section 32 of R.A. No. 7279, pertinent portion of which reads: "Sec. 32. Incentives. To encourage its wider implementation, participants in the CMP shall be granted the following privileges or incentives: xxx xxx xxx "(b) Properties sold under the CMP shall be exempted from the capital gains tax; and xxx xxx xxx the landowners who sell their property to the Tenant's Association pursuant to the Community Mortgage Program are exempt from the payment of capital gains tax and from the expanded withholding tax under Revenue Regulations No. 1-90. Upon the sale thereof, the capital gains realized by the landowner shall be exempt from capital gains tax pursuant to the aforequoted provision of R.A. 7279, otherwise known as the Urban Development and Housing Act of 1992. Such being the case, the sale to the Mother of Perpetual Help Homeowners Association, Inc. is exempt from the capital gains tax and the expanded withholding tax. However, it is observed that documentary stamp tax is not one of the taxes covered by the tax exemption clause under Sections 20 and 32 of R.A. 7279. Such being the case, the landowners, Mrs. Joaquina Rosales-Ticzon and Mr. Mariano A. Rosales are liable to pay the documentary stamp tax on the document conveying the property to the Association under the CMP as imposed under Sec. 196 of the Tax Code, as amended, based on the actual consideration paid by the association to the said landowners. LIWAYWAY VINZONS-CHATO Commissioner of Internal Revenue