SEN. Sherwin Gatchalian, presiding chairman of the Senate Ways and Means, convened a hybrid public hearing Wednesday to review options aimed at easing the taxpayers’ burden of paying taxes to the government.
At the hearing, Gatchalian explained the committee has decided to split the administrative part of easing the payment of taxes and the taxpayers’ bill of rights so that the latter will be a stand-alone bill.
According to Gatchalian, Senate Bill No. 1346 and House Bill No. 4125 or the Ease of Paying Taxes Act, both aim to provide a simple and convenient method to taxpayers and for them to gain access to the latest digital technologies in paying taxes.
“That is the simple philosophy of the measures today,” said Gatchalian.
The Senate panel, he added, are working on measures to “simplify the lives of our taxpayers, make it convenient, and enable them to use cutting-edge technologies as means of paying taxes,” and to simplify the concepts that are being practiced in the past.
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