Richard Gutierrez faces perjury, falsification of documents raps

ACTOR RICHARD Gutierrez is facing perjury and falsification of documents charges, on top of a pending P38.57-million tax evasion complaint, filed yesterday by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR). In a statement, the BIR said Mr. Gutierrez “used fake and falsified tax returns to secure the dismissal of the tax evasion case filed against (his company) R Gutz Production Corp.” The BIR said that the Annual Income Tax Returns (ITR) and Quarterly Valued-Added (VAT) Tax Returns attached to Mr. Gutierrez’s counter-affidavit in his tax evasion case currently pending at the DoJ are “falsified.” “The attached returns were deceptively made to appear to have been stamped received by Revenue District Office No. 42 — San Juan City,” the BIR said. The RDO 42 — San Juan and the Document Processing Division of BIR Quezon City both have certified that R Gutz Productions Corp. had no VAT returns filed for the 2^nd, 3^rd, and 4^th quarters of 2012. — Kristine Joy V. Patag