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The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has issued Revenue Regulation (RR) No. 12-2025, which amends Section 5 of RR No. 3-1969 by including additional provisions related to the service of warrants and notices.

The regulation specifies that the Warrant of Distraint and/or Levy (WDL) for individual taxpayers shall be served to:

a. The delinquent taxpayer

b. Their authorised representative, or

c. A member of their household of legal age with sufficient discretion

For corporations, the WDL shall be served to the president, vice president, manager, treasurer or comptroller.

Furthermore, if the taxpayer refuses to receive the WDL or is absent from their address, the WDL shall be constructively served by requiring two (2) credible witnesses to sign acknowledgement receipt of the warrant, leaving a duplicate copy of the WDL at the premises of the taxpayer, and sending a copy of the WDL via registered mail or email.

Additionally, taxpayers who appear before any BIR office or whose whereabouts are known through an informant, the WDL and other related notices shall be served to them or their duly authorised representative. 

Please be guided accordingly.

 

Source:

P&A Grant Thornton 

Certified Public Accountants 

P&A Grant Thornton is the Philippine member firm of Grant Thornton International Ltd.

 

As published in SunStar Cebu, dated 26 April 2025