Philippine Heart Center (2)

December 9, 2008 FIRB RESOLUTION NO. 015-08 SUBJECT MATTER : Philippine Heart Center (2) WHEREAS, the Philippine Heart Center (PHC) provides specialized heart care services to a number of patients, most of whom are classified as indigents; llcd WHEREAS, the operations of the PHC require the replacement of outdated equipment and continuing provisions of supplies and materials, most of which are not locally available or are not available in the quantity and/or quality required, thus prompting the PHC to import said items and in the process incur tax and duty liabilities thereon; WHEREAS, the PHC does not have the financial capacity to assume the burden of the taxes and duties on its importations of hospital equipment and medical supplies; WHEREAS, there is also a need to ensure that all importations covered by this tax subsidy grant will be used exclusively by the PHC in its operations and not for other purposes; WHEREAS, the tax subsidy earlier granted to the PHC per FIRB Resolution No. 11-08 (August 7, 2008) does not include the taxes and duties due on hospital bedside commode and medication carts; SCIcTD NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, AS IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED, to grant tax subsidy to the PHC in the amount of SEVEN HUNDRED SEVENTY TWO THOUSAND (P772,000.00) only representing taxes and duties on its 2008 importations of hospital bedside commode and medication carts: Provided, however, that: (a) the issuance of the Certificate of Entitlement to Subsidy (CES) shall be limited to the amount of P772,000.00 representing taxes and duties due on importations [2 shipments with billings of the Bureau of Customs (BOC)] that arrived on August 16, 2008 (20 medication carts in the amount of P629,941.00) and August 31, 2008 (10 bedside commode in the amount of P142,059.00); and (b) that all equipment for which tax subsidy is granted shall form part of the regular inventory of the PHC as certified to by the resident Commission on Audit (COA) auditor of the PHC: Provided, finally, that such availment shall be in accordance with the terms and conditions of Section 14 of the 2008 General Appropriations Act, subject to the availability of funds therefor, pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Rules and Regulations to Implement the Subsidy Provision under Executive Order No. 93. (SGD.) GIL S. BELTRAN Undersecretary of Finance Presiding Officer FIRB Reference: Joint FIRB-Technical Committee Meeting dated December 9, 2008.