BIR owes 600K workers P9,000 each in tax case

THE country’s biggest labor federation has called on the Supreme Court (SC) to hasten the issuance of Implementing Rules and Regulations that would lay down the mechanism for the refund of the estimated P5.4 billion in taxes that was illegally collected from workers by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR).

Labor group Associated Labor Unions-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (ALU-TUCP) on Monday said the BIR owes 600,000 minimum wage workers nationwide an estimated P9,000 “blood money” each from the tax they collected for six months in 2008 amid a law exempting minimum wage workers from withholding tax.