An Act so Amending Act Numbered Eleven Hundred and Forty-Eight, Entitled "The Forest Act," as to Provide but One Scale of Taxes on Timber for All Provinces
Act No. 1575, enacted on December 14, 1906, amends the Forest Act (Act No. 1148) to establish a uniform tax scale on timber across all provinces in the Philippines. The amendments specify tax rates for different groups of timber, with rates set at two pesos and fifty centavos for the first group, one peso and fifty centavos for the second, one peso for the third, and fifty centavos for the fourth group and non-enumerated timber. Special provisions are made for ebony and camagon timber, with specific tax rates based on their measurement, including requirements regarding sapwood. This Act is effective from January 1, 1907, and emphasizes the need for swift legislative action for public benefit.
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- What is An Act so Amending Act Numbered Eleven Hundred and Forty-Eight, Entitled "The Forest Act," as to Provide but One Scale of Taxes on Timber for All Provinces about?
- Act No. 1575, enacted on December 14, 1906, amends the Forest Act (Act No. 1148) to establish a uniform tax scale on timber across all provinces in the Philippines. The amendments specify tax rates for different groups of timber, with rates set at two pesos and fifty centavos for the first group, one peso and fifty centavos for the second, one peso for the third, and fifty centavos for the fourth group and non-enumerated timber. Special provisions are made for ebony and camagon timber, with specific tax rates based on their measurement, including requirements regarding sapwood. This Act is effective from January 1, 1907, and emphasizes the need for swift legislative action for public benefit.
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December 14, 1906
ACT NO. 1575
AN ACT SO AMENDING ACT NUMBERED ELEVEN HUNDRED AND FORTY-EIGHT, ENTITLED "THE FOREST ACT," AS TO PROVIDE BUT ONE SCALE OF TAXES ON TIMBER FOR ALL PROVINCES
SECTION 1. Section eleven of Act Numbered Eleven hundred and forty-eight, entitled "The Forest Act," is hereby amended by striking out of said section the first three paragraphs hereof beginning with the words "For the purposes of this Act" and ending with the words "Samar, Surigao, and Tayabas."
SECTION 2. Section twelve of said Act is hereby amended in the following particulars:
(a) Paragraph three of section twelve of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "On all timber included in the first group, two pesos and fifty centavos."
(b) Paragraph four of section twelve of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "On all timber included in the second group, one peso and fifty centavos."
(c) Paragraph five of section twelve of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "On all timber included in the third group, one peso."
(d) Paragraph six of section twelve of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "On all timber included in the fourth group and on all non-enumerated timber, fifty centavos: PROVIDED, That the taxes imposed in this section on ebony and camagon shall be charged on said timbers when presented for measurement and appraisal with the sapwood still attached; and the number of cubic meters in each piece of timber so measured shall include the sapwood attached to the same, and when ebony or camagon timber from which the sapwood has been stripped is presented for measurement and appraisal there shall be assessed and collected the following sums:"
(e) Paragraph seven of section twelve of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "On each cubic meter of ebony, six pesos. On each cubic meter of camagon, four pesos and fifty centavos.
SECTION 3. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on January first, nineteen hundred and seven.
ENACTED, December 14, 1906.
Cite This Law
An Act so Amending Act Numbered Eleven Hundred and Forty-Eight, Entitled "The Forest Act," as to Provide but One Scale of Taxes on Timber for All Provinces, Act No. 1575, Dec 14, 1906 (Philippines)
An Act so Amending Act Numbered Eleven Hundred and Forty-Eight, Entitled "The Forest Act," as to Provide but One Scale of Taxes on Timber for All Provinces, Act No. 1575 (Phil. 1906)
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