“By now, they should know we are really serious (about suspending or closing non-compliant businesses). We cannot do anything to help them if they persist in their wayward practices.” - Misajon said,
The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) shut down Pollo Negro Café & Rotisserie and K-Choice Convenience Store in
Suspended from further operating her business was DELIA MONTERO KROLMAN, owner of the said business establishment with business address at Equator Gas Station,
Under the Tax Code, there is substantial underdeclaration of sales receipts/income if the amount of discovered unreported sales is 30% or more than what was reported by the business establishment in its returns filed with the BIR.
A “Z” reading of the CRM-POS machines used by the convenience store found KROLMAN to have underdeclared her sales for the first semester of taxable year 2009 by P1,064,062.48, which amount is way beyond the 30% threshold.
Krolman’s suspension was implemented pursuant to a Closure Order signed by BIR Commissioner Sixto S. Esquivias IV following the failure of the former to explain her side and present evidence to dispute the above-mentioned BIR findings as indicated in the 48 Hour and Five Day VAT Notices.
Revenue Region (RR) No. 8, Makati City Regional Director Alfredo V. Misajon said that the closure of the said establishment and others before it was a fitting manifestation of his region’s unmistakable determination to shut down unrepentant tax violators.
Misajon said, “By now, they should know we are really serious (about suspending or closing non-compliant businesses). We cannot do anything to help them if they persist in their wayward practices.”
Revenue District Officer Gerry O. Dumayas of Revenue District Office No. 44,
Meanwhile, two other Revenue District Offices under RR No. 8,
Trans-phil was shuttered for non-filing of quarterly Value-Added Tax (VAT) returns, and non-payment of VAT due thereon for taxable years 2008 and 2009. It was also charged for underdeclaring its sales amounting to P31,982,500.00
Victal on the other hand was cited for sales underdeclaration amounting to P56,617,643.00 in 2006 and P27,860,439.00 in 2007.
Among those previously padlocked by RR No. 8, Makati City under the Oplan Kandado program were: 1) Coffee Bean Tea Leaf (CBTL), a popular coffee shop in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City, for unreported sales amounting to P3,855,985.20 for the first quarter of taxable year 2009; 2) Arra’s Fine Dining, a Korean Restaurant in Makati City for understatement of its taxable sales in 2008 by more than P20M; 3) Murray’s Wine-Burger Corporation in Serendra, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig for failure to declare P4.6M in sales; 4) MBEE Convenience Store in Salcedo Village, Makati City for underdeclaring its sales by P21.3M; 5) City Mattress Business Ventures, Co. in Alabang, Muntinlupa City for failing to report sales in 2007 and 2008 amounting to P44.4M; and 6) Paradigm Fort Culinary Corporation in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City for failure to report sales amounting to P2,677,587.25 and P1,940,157.81, in 2008 and 2009 (first two quarters), respectively.
Oplan Kandado is the flagship project of the BIR initiated by Commissioner Esquivias which aims to strictly enforce sanctions for non-compliance by business establishments with requirements of the Tax Code. (rtdlc)