THE Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) said it filed tax evasion charges against three individuals and an industrial-products company.
In a statement Thursday, the BIR said Maria Cheryl Corpuz Lagat, the proprietor of an unidentified business, is facing a complaint of willful failure to pay taxes under the National Revenue Code of 1997, as amended (Tax Code).
Ms. Lagat is alleged to have accumulated a tax liability of P16,898,301.38 for 2010.
The BIR also charged Eduardo A. Socuaje, Jr. with the same offense. Mr. Socuaje, owner of Gold East Trading based in Binondo, Manila, allegedly failed to pay taxes worth P27,718,451.80, for 2010.
Also charged with tax evasion is a company it only identified as Hanwell, based in Sta. Cruz, Manila, over P4,238,307.55 in unpaid taxes for the first half of 2017.
It charged a certain Jin Hung over a deficiency tax liability of P9,492,878 for 2011.
The BIR said that its Manila office “records of investigation showed that the above mentioned respondents were served the corresponding Letter Notices (LN), Letters of Authority (LOA), Requests for Presentation of Records, Subpoena Duces Tecum (SDT), Preliminary Assessment Notices (PAN), Final Assessment Notices (FAN), and Formal Letters of Demand (FLD) with Details of Discrepancies but failed to either pay or protest said assessments.”
The BIR then deemed the assessments final, executory and demandable.
The four cases bring the number filed under the government’s Run After Tax Evaders program to 47. — Kristine Joy V. Patag
