Revenue Memorandum Circular No. 12-2015 was issued by the CIR of the bureau to clarify Section 4(3) of Revenue Regulations Nos. 6-2014 and RR 5-2015, mandating the use of eBIRForms and electronically filing "no payment returns".
The following taxpayers may file manually "no payment returns" to the Revenue District Office (RDO) where registered using officially printed forms/photocopied or electronic/computer-generated returns:
1. Senior Citizen (SC) or Persons with Disabilities (PWD) filing for their own return;
2. Employees deriving purely compensation income and the income tax of which single or multiple employers (with two or more employers concurrently and successively at anytime during the taxable year);
3. Employees qualified for substituted filing under RR 2-98 Sec. 2.83.4, as amended, but opted to file for an Income Tax Return (ITR) and are filing for purposes of promotion (PNP/AFP), loans, scholarship, foreign travel requirements, etc.
The above-taxpayers are encourage to use offline eBIRforms for ease and convenience in the preparation, validation, computation rules and efficiently check for completeness and correctness of taxpayer input. However, they are encouraged as much as possible to file their returns electronically to avoid the crowd and long lines.
Please refer http://www.bir.gov.ph/images/bir_files/internal_communications_2/RMC%20No%2012-2015.pdf of the full text of RMC No. 12-2015.
