Amendments to NIRC Re: Tax on Rice and Corn Mills

June 22, 1963

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 3704

AN ACT AMENDING SECTIONS ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY-TWO AND ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY-NINE OF THE NATIONAL INTERNAL REVENUE CODE, BY PROVIDING AN ANNUAL GRADUATED FIXED TAX ON RICE AND CORN MILLS AND EXEMPTING THEM FROM THE PERCENTAGE TAX OF TWO PER CENTUM

SECTION 1. Section one hundred eighty-two of the National Internal Revenue Code, as amended, is further amended by adding to paragraph (3) thereof a new subparagraph, hereinafter to be known as subparagraph (x), to read as follows:

"(x) Operators or owners of rice or corn mills shall be subject to an annual graduated fixed tax based upon total capacity per machine in accordance with the following schedule:

'"Corn mill, not exceeding one hundred
cavanes per twelve hour capacity	P30.00
"Corn mill, exceeding one hundred cavanes
per twelve hour capacity	45.00
"Kiskisan" type, not exceeding one
hundred cavanes of palay per twelve
hour capacity	50.00
"Kiskisan" type, exceeding one hundred
cavanes of palay per twelve hour capacity	75.00
"Cono," of not exceeding one hundred
cavanes of palay per twelve hour capacity	200.00
"Cono," of not exceeding two hundred
cavanes of palay per twelve hour capacity	400.00
"Cono," of not exceeding three hundred
cavanes of palay per twelve hour capacity	600.00
"Cono," of not exceeding four hundred
cavanes of palay per twelve hour capacity	900.00
"Cono," of not exceeding five hundred
cavanes of palay per twelve hour capacity	1,300.00
"Cono," of not exceeding six hundred
cavanes of palay per twelve hour capacity	1,800.00
"Cono," of not exceeding seven hundred
cavanes of palay per twelve hour capacity	2,500.00
"Cono," of not exceeding eight hundred
cavanes of palay per twelve hour capacity	3,200.00
"Cono," of not exceeding nine hundred
cavanes of palay per twelve hour capacity	4,000.00
"Cono," of over one thousand cavanes
of palay per twelve hour capacity	4,800.00"

SECTION 2. The first paragraph of Section one hundred and eighty-nine of the National Internal Revenue Code, as amended, is further amended to read as follows:

"Sec. 189. Percentage tax upon proprietors or operators of rope factories, sugar centrals, coconut oil mills, cassava mills and desiccated coconut factories. — Proprietors or operators of rope factories, sugar centrals, coconut oil mills, cassava mills and desiccated coconut factories shall pay a tax equivalent to two per centum of the gross value in money of all rope, sugar, coconut oil, cassava flour or starch, and desiccated coconut manufactured or milled by them, including the by-products of the raw materials from which said articles are produced or manufactured, such tax to be based on the actual selling price or market, value of these articles at the time they leave the factory or mill warehouse: Provided, however, That this tax shall not apply to ropes, coconut oil, and the by-products of copra from which it is produced or manufactured, and desiccated coconuts if such oil, copra, by-products and desiccated coconuts shall be removed for exportation and are actually exported without returning to the Philippines, whether so exported in their original state, or as an ingredient or part of any manufactured article or product." casia

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 22, 1963

Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 59, No. 45, p. 7722 on November 11, 1963