Bam Aquino urges BIR to suspend online stores badge rule
Source: The Manila times
Published on: 2026-10-24 16:09
CITING the heavy economic toll of soaring electricity and fuel prices on small entrepreneurs, Senate Committee on Trade, Commerce and Entrepreneurship Chairman Bam Aquino called on the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to immediately suspend its new Registration Seal Badge requirement for online businesses, or waive noncompliance fines until the end of the year. Aquino pressed the tax bureau to halt the impending Oct. 31 deadline mandated under Revenue Regulations (RR) 15-2024 and restated through Revenue Memorandum Circular (RMC) 99-2026. He warned that enforcing additional compliance hurdles during an ongoing energy and oil crisis unfairly penalizes micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), online merchants and digital content creators. "Our online businesses, online sellers and even online creators are already struggling with the high costs of electricity and fuel; why should we b...
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