Extension of Period for Filing of Returns and Payment of Taxes

November 1, 1945

COMMONWEALTH ACT NO. 722

AN ACT TO EXTEND THE PERIOD FOR FILING OF RETURNS AND THE PAYMENT OF TAXES UNDER COMMONWEALTH ACT NUMBERED FOUR HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SIX, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE NATIONAL INTERNAL REVENUE CODE, AS AMENDED, AND OTHER LAWS ADMINISTERED BY THE BUREAU OF INTERNAL REVENUE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

SECTION 1. The period for the making, rendering and filing of notices, returns, statements or reports of gross sales, receipts, earnings, gross value of output, value of real property, income, premiums, or resources of banks required under Commonwealth Act Numbered Four hundred and sixty-six, otherwise known as the National Internal Revenue Code, as amended, and any laws administered by the Bureau of Internal Revenue, which had become due on or after December eight, nineteen hundred forty-one but not later than August thirty-first, nineteen hundred forty-five, is extended until December thirty-first, nineteen hundred forty-five, and no penalty of any kind shall be collected on such notices, returns, statements or reports if filed on or before December thirty-first, nineteen hundred forty-five: Provided, however, That the extension herein granted shall not apply to returns, statements, or reports of gross sales, receipts, earnings, gross value of output for any tax period of the calendar year nineteen hundred forty-five subject to the percentage taxes under Title V of the Code. prcd

SECTION 2. The period for the payment of taxes, fees, and charges levied or imposed under the National Internal Revenue Code, as amended, and any other laws administered by the Bureau of Internal Revenue, which had become due and payable on or after December eight, nineteen hundred forty-one but not later than August thirty-first, nineteen hundred forty-five is extended until the last day of February, nineteen hundred forty-six and no penalty of any kind shall be added to such taxes, fees, and charges if paid on or before the last day of February, nineteen hundred forty-six: Provided, however, That the extension herein granted shall not apply to the percentage taxes under Title V of the Code for any tax period of the calendar year nineteen hundred forty -five.

SECTION 3. The interest, if any, provided for late payment of taxes in the National Internal Revenue Code, as amended, or in any other laws administered by the Bureau of Internal Revenue, shall not be collected for the period from December eight, nineteen hundred forty-one to the last day of February, nineteen hundred forty-six, inclusive, on unpaid taxes which had accrued and become payable before December eight, nineteen hundred forty-one.

SECTION 4. The running of the period of limitation or prescription provided in sections three hundred thirty-one and three hundred thirty-two of the National Internal Revenue Code, as amended, and in Act Numbered Three thousand three hundred twenty-six, as amended, shall be suspended for the period from December eight, nineteen hundred forty-one to the last day of February, nineteen hundred forty-six inclusive.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: November 1, 1945