Internal Revenue Stamps for Tobacco Products
Republic Act No. 569, approved on August 31, 1950, amends Section 137 of the National Internal Revenue Code to allow the affixing of Philippine internal revenue stamps on tobacco products manufactured in foreign countries before their importation into the Philippines. This provision is contingent upon the foreign country permitting its own revenue stamps to be affixed to Philippine-manufactured tobacco products for export. The implementation of this act will be governed by rules and regulations set by the Collector of Internal Revenue with the approval of the Secretary of Finance. The law took effect upon its approval and was published in the Official Gazette in December 1950.
August 31, 1950
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 569
AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT INTERNAL REVENUE STAMPS OF THE PHILIPPINES MAY IN CERTAIN CASES BE AFFIXED IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES TO TOBACCO PRODUCTS MANUFACTURED IN SUCH COUNTRIES BEFORE IMPORTATION INTO THE PHILIPPINES, BY AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE SECTION ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SEVEN OF THE NATIONAL INTERNAL REVENUE CODE AS AMENDED
SECTION 1. Section one hundred and thirty-seven of the National Internal Revenue Code, as amended, is hereby amended by adding at the end hereof a new paragraph, which shall read as follows:
"If the government of a foreign country permits the revenue stamps of such country to be affixed in the Philippines to tobacco (including cigars) or snuff manufactured in the Philippines and imported into such foreign country, internal revenue stamps of the Philippines may be affixed to tobacco (including cigar) or snuff manufactured in such foreign country to be imported into the Philippines from such foreign country, under such rules and regulations as the Collector of Internal Revenue with the approval of the Secretary of Finance may prescribe." aisa dc
SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Approved: August 31, 1950
Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 46, No. 12, p. 5943 in December 1950