Who this is for.
And who is behind it.
KaTaxpayer publishes to micro and small taxpayers who are already in trouble with the BIR, and to the bookkeepers who keep their records. Not to tax departments, and not to people with a firm on retainer. To the person reading a notice on their phone on a Tuesday night, wondering how bad it is.
Most tax writing in the Philippines is addressed to practitioners. It assumes you already know what an LOA is, what a Subpoena Duces Tecum compels, and what the difference is between a Notice of Discrepancy and a Preliminary Assessment Notice. If you knew all that, you would not be looking it up at eleven at night.
Everything here is written for the person holding the notice, not the person who issued it.
That means checklists rather than commentary, worked letters rather than templates you still have to interpret, and Taglish wherever plain English would put distance between you and the thing you have to do tomorrow.
Emelino T. Maestro is a Certified Public Accountant with more than forty years of field practice in Philippine taxation. His work begins by making sure the taxpayer understands the rights they already hold, and exposure tends to fall once that is clear. On Letters of Authority he works to see that those rights and the Bureau’s own due process are observed and put on record, and he has been instrumental in reducing discrepancy assessments and, in a number of matters, in having them nullified.
Emelino T. Maestro
More than forty years of field practice in Philippine taxation.
Work begins with making the taxpayer understand the rights they already hold. Exposure tends to fall once that is clear.
Handles LOA cases so that the taxpayer's rights and the Bureau's own due process are observed and put on record.
Instrumental in reducing assessments and, in a number of matters, in having them nullified.
Designs components of BIR-required systems that connect business records with calculations, accounting entries and reports.
How a payment here works.
There is no card on file and no payment gateway. You send the exact amount yourself, by GCash, to Emelson Maestro — and you decide when.
You get it the moment you order, by email and on screen. It goes in the GCash message field, and it is how your payment is matched to your order rather than to someone else’s.
Payments are confirmed by matching the reference number you type against the actual GCash transaction log. A screenshot on its own does not confirm an order.
That is why the order form asks for your registered name and TIN. It is collected so an invoice can be issued when the payment clears, rather than chased from you afterwards.
taXspecialista@kataxpayer.com, or any of the numbers below. Quote your reference code and you will not have to explain the whole thing again.
Education and tools for micro and small taxpayers, and for the bookkeepers who serve them.
The imprint that publishes Unquestionable Compliance, and the practice’s template and tool range.
Contact: Emelino T. Maestro, taXspecialista