COMMONWEALTH ACT NO. 523 - AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIVE OF THE NATIONAL INTERNAL REVENUE CODE |
Section
1. Section two hundred and fifty-five of Commonwealth Act Numbered Four
hundred and sixty-six is amended to read as follows: "Section255. Tax on insurance
premiums. – There shall be collected from every person, company, or
corporation (except purely cooperative companies or associations) doing
insurance business of any sort in the Philippines a tax of one per
centum of the total premiums collected during the first ten years of
his or its organization or establishment, irrespective of the place
thereof and one and one-half per centum of the total premiums collected
thereafter, whether such premiums are paid in money, notes, credits, or
any substitute for money, but premiums refunded within six months after
payment on account of rejection of risk or returned for other reason to
person insured shall not be included in the taxable receipts; nor shall
any tax be paid upon reinsurance by a company that has already paid the
tax; nor upon premiums collected or received by any branch of a
domestic corporation, firm or association doing business outside the
Philippines on account of any life insurance of the insured who is a
non-resident, if any percentage tax on such premiums is imposed by the
foreign country where the branch is established. "'Cooperative companies or associations,' are such as are conducted by the members thereof with money collected from among themselves and solely for their own protection and not for profit." Section2. This Act shall take effect as of January first, nineteen hundred and forty. |