June 2021 Webinars

Featured Speaker: Ms. Rhodora Icaranom
Former Revenue District Officer – B.I.R.

June 25, 2021
2:00pm – 5:00pm
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Regular Rate           Php 1,499.00 + VAT starting June 19, 2021
Early Bird Rate        Php 1,399.00 + VAT until June 18, 2021
Group Rate              Php 1,299.00 + VAT per pax for 5 or more pax

Inclusive of the Webinar Session, Presentation Materials of the Speaker and the Digital Certificate (with dashboard)
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Legal Strategies to Reduce Tax

Program Overview

It is always an ordeal to taxpayers not knowing how to report the correct taxes and being able to report all the necessary costs and expenses to arrive at the least possible Income Tax, VAT, Percentage Tax and to avoid legally other transactions taxes.

This webinar shall tackle most if not all, the transactions of revenues, cost, capital and financial expenditures and operating expenses that when managed, can bring out the optimum tax savings. It is worth noting that the key to determining how to plan legally an entity’s tax optimization is by knowing the bases of the tax treatments of all the balance sheets and income accounts.

There had been continuing issuances of revenue regulations, memorandum orders, and circulars even during the time of pandemic which shall be helpful in ensuring that our financial condition and operations are shielded by proper compliance with the processes in order to maximize the deductions and minimize the entity’s tax exposure.

Items for Discussion:

• How to process your present losses to be booked in the current and future period.
•  Learning the processes for Inventory Losses, Obsolescence, Spoilage and Breakage.
• How to properly claim Bad Debts.
• How to legally avoid Improperly Accumulated Earnings Tax and knowing who are exempt from it.
• Knowing the limitations of the EAR (Entertainment, Amusement & Recreation)
• Knowing the threshold of income deduction and VAT Input Tax claims on luxury vehicles.
• Knowing the How to Keep Exemptions (Income Tax Holiday, PEZA, BOI, BMBE)
• Learning the use of Tax-Free Exchange and its benefits to the transacting parties and the requirements.
• Learning the Proper Tax Presentation of Salaries and Wages (Taxable and Non-taxable)
• Determining the Interest Arbitrage (Limitations of Interest Expense Claims)
• How to donate with additional incentives, exemptions from Donors Tax, Income Tax and VAT.
• How to manage claims of Withholding Taxes (BIR Form 2307)
• Classifying assets into Capital Asset or Ordinary Asset and understand the Tax Risks for Income Tax and VAT purposes.
• Monitoring accounts that are subject to annual DST.
• Knowing the right to Amnesty, Compromise and Abatement of Penalties for Delinquent Accounts.
• and many more.

RESOURCE SPEAKER – Ms. Rhodora Icaranom

• Ms. Rhodora G. Icaranom is the former Revenue District Officer(RDO) of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Her tax experience was mostly spent in the Financial District Makati where she was assigned as Asst. Revenue District Officer for almost nine years. She had a one-year stint in the Large Taxpayers’ Division as Head of the Banks and Financial Intermediaries.
• In her career with the tax authority she received a distinguished award  on the nationwide BIR search for Outstanding Group Supervisor-Centennial Year during the BIR’s Centennial Celebration in 2004 for her consistent exemplary performance in Audit and Tax Collection being the Head of the Special Task Force in Manila Region. As a member of the BIR Pool of Speakers, she was a regular lecturer of BIR in various tax topics usually focused on updates. At the same time, she is an accredited PICPA speaker in the PICPA National office and various regions for the last two decades. She is also a former professor of Accounting at the De La Salle University.
• During her years of tax service in the government, she attended various trainings held by BIR, some of which were sponsored by Germany, Japan, US and by the big Auditing Firms. In November 2012, she was sent to a month-long training and conference for International Taxation on a Senior Executive Program in Tokyo, Japan sponsored by JICA. Subsequently in October 2015, she also represented BIR for the International Taxation on Financial Instruments in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia sponsored by Malaysian Internal Revenue Authority and International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation IBFD of London.

IMPORTANT REMINDERS

LIMITED SLOTS. Limited slots are available. To avoid last-minute delays and inconveniences, we advise you to please register at the latest two days or one day before the webinar event.

REGISTRATION. You must register or be registered by someone else to be able to join our webinars.  Webinar access links are strictly sent through email therefore make sure you indicate the right email addresses for the participants. Please indicate how many participants you wish to include before hitting the REGISTER NOW button.

CHECK OUT. When you go to the Checkout Page, double-check the number of participants you have to register, if you change your mind or wish to make last-minute adjustments, do not forget to update your cart by clicking the UPDATE CART button.  Once everything is final, you may now click the PROCEED TO CHECK OUT button.

BILLING DETAILS AND THE NAMES OF THE PARTICIPANTS. On the upper portion, you have to enter your details (esp. your email address) as the one paying for the registration. Underneath, you have to enter the details (esp. the email addresses) of the participants you wish to join the webinar.

PAYMENT

POWERMAX provides three (3) payment options:
(1) Bank Deposit/Online Bank Transfer
(2) G-Cash
(3) PayPal/Credit or Debit Card Through PayPal 

Bank Deposit or Online Bank Transfer / G-Cash
If you choose Bank Deposit/Online Bank Transfer or G-Cash, you have to send the proof of payment to info@powermax.ph.

IMPORTANT:  Proof of payment must be sent to info@powermax.ph.  Failure to send the proof of payment to info@powermax.ph means the participants will not receive the webinar links even if the proof of payment is sent to other contact details of Powermax or its representatives (e.g., Facebook, Messenger, Viber, other email addresses, etc.).

Payment Through PayPal
If you choose to pay for your registration using PayPal you may do so.  Please take note that PayPal also accepts Debit Cards and Credit Cards bearing the VISA and Mastercard logo. Unlike the Bank Deposit/Online Bank Transfer, the PayPal process automatically updates our system to issue the participants their access to our webinars.

WEBINAR ACCESS LINKS.  Once payment is made and verified, we can activate the spot on the webinar then we can send the webinar access links to the email addresses of the participants – this only goes with Bank Deposit/Online Bank Transfer / G-Cash.  However, for payments made using PayPal, the activation process is automatic. Note that your webinar access link cannot be shared with anyone else.  If you cannot attend on the date and time of the webinar kindly advise us at the latest one day ahead.

POWER WEBINARS. Powermax live webinars are designed to give you an incisive insight into a plethora of interesting and relevant topics using Zoom technology. It aims to uncork the latest updates, best practices, useful strategies, and tactics, and/or practical tips and techniques not just to widen your horizon but also to equip you with the essential knowledge and skills. Hopefully, this will also encourage you to register for the other webinars of Powermax. Just visit our site – www.powermax.ph to see our other webinars.

A PLEASANT WEBINAR EXPERIENCE

To ensure a pleasant webinar experience, we recommend to registrants to:

1. Download and install the Zoom application beforehand
2. Ensure that there is a proper internet WIFI connection
3. Use a working webinar streaming device.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

1. Definition of Terms
   • REGISTRANT – The person who has registered himself or other people for a webinar of Powermax
   • ENROLLEE(S) – The person(s) registered by the REGISTRANT
   • PAID REGISTRANT – The registrant who has paid in full for the registration of the ENROLLEE(S)
   • ATTENDEE(S) – The enrollee(s) who has / have actually attended the webinar
2. The Official Receipts will be made available for pick up at the office of

Powermax Consulting Group. If you need a soft copy, we can take a picture of it and send you a copy online. However, if you want the physical copy delivered to your office, you can arrange with and pay for a local courier service like Lalamove or Grab Express.

3. Sharing of the presentation materials depends on the webinar speaker.

(a) Some speakers willingly share their materials while others don’t.
(b) For the speakers who are willing to share their presentation materials

• Some prefer that the materials be sent in advance while others prefer that they be sent after the webinar
• Some prefer that the handouts to be given to the attendees are different from the PowerPoint files that they use and will not share the PPT files

Powermax cannot guarantee that the presentation materials of each webinar will be shared, or shared in advance, or will be the same as the PPT file of the speaker.

4. By joining the webinar of Powermax, you consent to interviews, photography, audio recording, video recording and its / their release, publication, exhibition, or reproduction to be used for news, web casts, promotional purposes, telecasts, advertising, inclusion on web sites, or for any other purpose(s) that Powermax, its vendors, partners, affiliates and/or representatives deems fit to use. You release Powermax, its officers and employees, and each and all persons involved from any liability connected with the taking, recording, digitizing, or publication of interviews, photographs, computer images, video and/or or sound recordings.Any form of video, image or audio recording during the webinar is not allowed unless with the express permission of the speaker and the management of Powermax Consulting Group.
5. By entering the event premises (conference venue or Zoom meeting platform), you waive all rights to any claims for payment or royalties in connection with any exhibition, streaming, webcasting, televising, or other publication of these materials, regardless of the purpose or sponsoring of such exhibiting, broadcasting, webcasting, or other publication irrespective of whether a fee for admission or sponsorship is charged. You also waive any right to inspect or approve any photo, video, or audio recording taken.
6. Any form of video, image or audio recording during the webinar is not allowed unless with the express permission of the speaker and the management of Powermax Consulting Group.
7. Your registration fee entitles your enrollee(s) to a slot in a webinar you have paid for but no record of the video of the webinar will be shared.
8. If an enrollee fails to join the webinar because Powermax fails to give the webinar link, the payment of his / her REGISTRANT will be refunded in full or if the REGISTRANT prefers, the payment will be rolled over to other webinars of his / her choice.
9. If an enrollee advises Powermax five (5) days before the scheduled date of the webinar that he / she cannot attend it, the payment for that slot will be rolled over to another webinar. But if he / she avails of the presentation materials of that webinar (assuming the speaker has shared the materials), the payment cannot be rolled over to another webinar.
10. If an enrollee fails to attend a webinar and also fails to advise Powermax five (5) days before the scheduled date of the webinar, the presentation materials of that webinar (assuming the speaker has shared the materials) will be given to him / her but there will be no option for rollover.
11. If an enrollee fails to attend a webinar because of a technical glitch on his / her device but other enrollees manage to join the said webinar, there will be no liability on the part of Powermax unless it can be established that there is a clear fault by a representative of Powermax.
12. Certificates will be given to the ATTENDEES only.
13. Questions or clarifications about the subject matter of a webinar can only be entertained by the speakers during the holding of the webinar. After the webinar, the speaker cannot be obliged to answer them though email, Facebook chat or some other means.
14. Unless asked by the speaker or the host to talk, the attendees should not unmute their microphone to avoid distracting the session. Anyone who persists in unmuting his / her audio, despite the reminder or warning, will be removed from the webinar session.
15. During the webinar, the ATTENDEES are not allowed to advertise any business competitive with the business of Powermax (seminars / webinars / events) or its sister company AGFI or Advertising and Gaming Fabrication, Inc. (signages, kiosks, podiums, gaming modules like tambiolo, roleta, pachinko; sticker and tarpaulin printing; and laser cutting)
16. We want everyone to enjoy the webinar. However, we reserve the right to remove participants who are unruly or disruptive (e.g., keeps making noise, spamming the chat, etc.) and no refund will be made.

Thank you and enjoy!

Keep safe and God Bless!

Featured Speaker: Ms. Rhodora Icaranom
Former Revenue District Officer – B.I.R.

July 1, 2021
2:00pm – 5:00pm
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Regular Rate           Php 1,499.00 + VAT starting June 25, 2021
Early Bird Rate        Php 1,399.00 + VAT until June 24, 2021
Group Rate              Php 1,299.00 + VAT per pax for 5 or more pax

Inclusive of the Webinar Session, Presentation Materials of the Speaker and the Digital Certificate (with dashboard)
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The CREATE Law and Its Implementing Rules
with Sample Computations

Introduction

A lot of accountants and business people want to be clarified about the practical aspects of the implementation of The Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises Act or CREATE Law. In particular, they want more details about the portfolio of tax perks and other benefits, together with sample computations. Look no further. Here, you can find all the answers you want for all your questions and clarifications about the implementing guidelines of the CREATE Law.

Course Outline

1. Reduction of Corporate Income Tax Rates (RCIT/MCIT)
2. Final Income Tax Rates for Corporations
3. Exemption of intercorporate dividends including foreign sourced dividends
4. Reduction on Income Tax preferential rate of proprietary Institutions and non-profit hospitals
5. Repeal of the Improperly Accumulated Earnings Tax
6. Subjecting OBUs and ROHQs to RCIT
7. Reduction of Percentage Tax Rate
8. Tax Free Exchange (Sec 40) No BIR ruling required
9. Additional VAT Exemptions of certain goods and services
10. Interest Arbitrage (for Corporate Income Tax Rates of 25% and 20%)
11. Deductions from Gross Income
12. Companies/Enterprises qualified for incentives
13. What are qualified activities to avail the incentives of ITH/SCIT
14. What are the fiscal incentives and other incentives
15. Rationalization of incentives based on location and industry
16. Enhanced Deductions for qualified enterprises
17. Sunset periods for existing projects
18. Authority to grant incentives
19. FIRB and IPA as regulatory bodies for the incentives application and grant
20. Items vetoed by the President of the Republic of the Philippines

Implementing Revenue Regulations:

RR 2-2021 Implementing the new FINAL Tax Rates on certain passive income of Individuals and Corporations pursuant to CREATE

• Income payments to Non-resident Aliens Engaged in Trade or business in the Phils.
• Income Payments to a Resident Foreign Corporation
• Income derived from all Sources within the Phils. By Non-resident foreign corporation
• Government Money Payments

RR 3-2021 Amendment of Section 20 of the NIRC of 1997

• Submission of Tax-Related and Pertinent Information to the BIR/DOF from entities receiving incentives
• Prohibition of BIR/DOF from leaking information to any person without prior written approval from the CIR pursuant to Sec 270 of the Tax Code, as amended

RR 4-2021 Implementing CREATE provisions affecting VAT and PT

• VAT Exemptions on sale of real properties
• Additional coverage of VAT exemptions w/ illustrations
• Tax on Persons exempt from VAT

RR 5-2021 Implementing the impact of CREATE like new IT rates on the regular income of corporations, certain passive income, including additional allowable deductions from Gross Income of persons engaged in Business or Practice of Profession

• Description of entities and their corresponding changes in rates and dates of effectivity
• Proprietary Educational Institutions
• Proprietary Hospitals
• Regional Operating Headquarters
• IT rates on different passive income
• Exemption of intercorporate foreign-sourced dividends subject to conditions
• Repeal of Improperly Accumulated Earnings Tax
• Allowable Deduction for Business Persons
• Non-recognition of Gain or Loss on Exchange of Property

RESOURCE SPEAKER – Ms. Rhodora Icaranom

• Ms. Rhodora G. Icaranom is the former Revenue District Officer(RDO) of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Her tax experience was mostly spent in the Financial District Makati where she was assigned as Asst. Revenue District Officer for almost nine years. She had a one-year stint in the Large Taxpayers’ Division as Head of the Banks and Financial Intermediaries.
• In her career with the tax authority she received a distinguished award  on the nationwide BIR search for Outstanding Group Supervisor-Centennial Year during the BIR’s Centennial Celebration in 2004 for her consistent exemplary performance in Audit and Tax Collection being the Head of the Special Task Force in Manila Region. As a member of the BIR Pool of Speakers, she was a regular lecturer of BIR in various tax topics usually focused on updates. At the same time, she is an accredited PICPA speaker in the PICPA National office and various regions for the last two decades. She is also a former professor of Accounting at the De La Salle University.
• During her years of tax service in the government, she attended various trainings held by BIR, some of which were sponsored by Germany, Japan, US and by the big Auditing Firms. In November 2012, she was sent to a month-long training and conference for International Taxation on a Senior Executive Program in Tokyo, Japan sponsored by JICA. Subsequently in October 2015, she also represented BIR for the International Taxation on Financial Instruments in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia sponsored by Malaysian Internal Revenue Authority and International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation IBFD of London.

IMPORTANT REMINDERS

LIMITED SLOTS. Limited slots are available. To avoid last-minute delays and inconveniences, we advise you to please register at the latest two days or one day before the webinar event.

REGISTRATION. You must register or be registered by someone else to be able to join our webinars.  Webinar access links are strictly sent through email therefore make sure you indicate the right email addresses for the participants. Please indicate how many participants you wish to include before hitting the REGISTER NOW button.

CHECK OUT. When you go to the Checkout Page, double-check the number of participants you have to register, if you change your mind or wish to make last-minute adjustments, do not forget to update your cart by clicking the UPDATE CART button.  Once everything is final, you may now click the PROCEED TO CHECK OUT button.

BILLING DETAILS AND THE NAMES OF THE PARTICIPANTS. On the upper portion, you have to enter your details (esp. your email address) as the one paying for the registration. Underneath, you have to enter the details (esp. the email addresses) of the participants you wish to join the webinar.

PAYMENT

POWERMAX provides three (3) payment options:
(1) Bank Deposit/Online Bank Transfer
(2) G-Cash
(3) PayPal/Credit or Debit Card Through PayPal 

Bank Deposit or Online Bank Transfer / G-Cash
If you choose Bank Deposit/Online Bank Transfer or G-Cash, you have to send the proof of payment to info@powermax.ph.

IMPORTANT:  Proof of payment must be sent to info@powermax.ph.  Failure to send the proof of payment to info@powermax.ph means the participants will not receive the webinar links even if the proof of payment is sent to other contact details of Powermax or its representatives (e.g., Facebook, Messenger, Viber, other email addresses, etc.).

Payment Through PayPal
If you choose to pay for your registration using PayPal you may do so.  Please take note that PayPal also accepts Debit Cards and Credit Cards bearing the VISA and Mastercard logo. Unlike the Bank Deposit/Online Bank Transfer, the PayPal process automatically updates our system to issue the participants their access to our webinars.

WEBINAR ACCESS LINKS.  Once payment is made and verified, we can activate the spot on the webinar then we can send the webinar access links to the email addresses of the participants – this only goes with Bank Deposit/Online Bank Transfer / G-Cash.  However, for payments made using PayPal, the activation process is automatic. Note that your webinar access link cannot be shared with anyone else.  If you cannot attend on the date and time of the webinar kindly advise us at the latest one day ahead.

POWER WEBINARS. Powermax live webinars are designed to give you an incisive insight into a plethora of interesting and relevant topics using Zoom technology. It aims to uncork the latest updates, best practices, useful strategies, and tactics, and/or practical tips and techniques not just to widen your horizon but also to equip you with the essential knowledge and skills. Hopefully, this will also encourage you to register for the other webinars of Powermax. Just visit our site – www.powermax.ph to see our other webinars.

A PLEASANT WEBINAR EXPERIENCE

To ensure a pleasant webinar experience, we recommend to registrants to:

1. Download and install the Zoom application beforehand
2. Ensure that there is a proper internet WIFI connection
3. Use a working webinar streaming device.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

1. Definition of Terms
   • REGISTRANT – The person who has registered himself or other people for a webinar of Powermax
   • ENROLLEE(S) – The person(s) registered by the REGISTRANT
   • PAID REGISTRANT – The registrant who has paid in full for the registration of the ENROLLEE(S)
   • ATTENDEE(S) – The enrollee(s) who has / have actually attended the webinar
2. The Official Receipts will be made available for pick up at the office of

Powermax Consulting Group. If you need a soft copy, we can take a picture of it and send you a copy online. However, if you want the physical copy delivered to your office, you can arrange with and pay for a local courier service like Lalamove or Grab Express.

3. Sharing of the presentation materials depends on the webinar speaker.

(a) Some speakers willingly share their materials while others don’t.
(b) For the speakers who are willing to share their presentation materials

• Some prefer that the materials be sent in advance while others prefer that they be sent after the webinar
• Some prefer that the handouts to be given to the attendees are different from the PowerPoint files that they use and will not share the PPT files

Powermax cannot guarantee that the presentation materials of each webinar will be shared, or shared in advance, or will be the same as the PPT file of the speaker.

4. By joining the webinar of Powermax, you consent to interviews, photography, audio recording, video recording and its / their release, publication, exhibition, or reproduction to be used for news, web casts, promotional purposes, telecasts, advertising, inclusion on web sites, or for any other purpose(s) that Powermax, its vendors, partners, affiliates and/or representatives deems fit to use. You release Powermax, its officers and employees, and each and all persons involved from any liability connected with the taking, recording, digitizing, or publication of interviews, photographs, computer images, video and/or or sound recordings.Any form of video, image or audio recording during the webinar is not allowed unless with the express permission of the speaker and the management of Powermax Consulting Group.
5. By entering the event premises (conference venue or Zoom meeting platform), you waive all rights to any claims for payment or royalties in connection with any exhibition, streaming, webcasting, televising, or other publication of these materials, regardless of the purpose or sponsoring of such exhibiting, broadcasting, webcasting, or other publication irrespective of whether a fee for admission or sponsorship is charged. You also waive any right to inspect or approve any photo, video, or audio recording taken.
6. Any form of video, image or audio recording during the webinar is not allowed unless with the express permission of the speaker and the management of Powermax Consulting Group.
7. Your registration fee entitles your enrollee(s) to a slot in a webinar you have paid for but no record of the video of the webinar will be shared.
8. If an enrollee fails to join the webinar because Powermax fails to give the webinar link, the payment of his / her REGISTRANT will be refunded in full or if the REGISTRANT prefers, the payment will be rolled over to other webinars of his / her choice.
9. If an enrollee advises Powermax five (5) days before the scheduled date of the webinar that he / she cannot attend it, the payment for that slot will be rolled over to another webinar. But if he / she avails of the presentation materials of that webinar (assuming the speaker has shared the materials), the payment cannot be rolled over to another webinar.
10. If an enrollee fails to attend a webinar and also fails to advise Powermax five (5) days before the scheduled date of the webinar, the presentation materials of that webinar (assuming the speaker has shared the materials) will be given to him / her but there will be no option for rollover.
11. If an enrollee fails to attend a webinar because of a technical glitch on his / her device but other enrollees manage to join the said webinar, there will be no liability on the part of Powermax unless it can be established that there is a clear fault by a representative of Powermax.
12. Certificates will be given to the ATTENDEES only.
13. Questions or clarifications about the subject matter of a webinar can only be entertained by the speakers during the holding of the webinar. After the webinar, the speaker cannot be obliged to answer them though email, Facebook chat or some other means.
14. Unless asked by the speaker or the host to talk, the attendees should not unmute their microphone to avoid distracting the session. Anyone who persists in unmuting his / her audio, despite the reminder or warning, will be removed from the webinar session.
15. During the webinar, the ATTENDEES are not allowed to advertise any business competitive with the business of Powermax (seminars / webinars / events) or its sister company AGFI or Advertising and Gaming Fabrication, Inc. (signages, kiosks, podiums, gaming modules like tambiolo, roleta, pachinko; sticker and tarpaulin printing; and laser cutting)
16. We want everyone to enjoy the webinar. However, we reserve the right to remove participants who are unruly or disruptive (e.g., keeps making noise, spamming the chat, etc.) and no refund will be made.

Thank you and enjoy!

Keep safe and God Bless!