Tax Alert No. 24 [BIR Advisory issued on 25 March 2019]

Advisory on the unavailability of Express Online Facility of BPI for Individual Taxpayers enrolled in eFPS

The Assistant Commissioner of the Collection Service of the Bureau of Internal Revenue has issued an Advisory dated 25 March 2019 (released/posted in BIR website on 28 March 2019), informing individual taxpayers enrolled in Electronic Filing and Payment System (eFPS) of the unavailability of the BPI Express Online (EOL) due to technology obsolescence effective 28 March 2019.

In order to avoid inconvenience in paying taxes, all affected eFPS individual taxpayers who are using the BPI online payment facility are advised to register/enroll with any of the following eFPS-Authorized Agent Banks:

1. Bank of Commerce
2. China Banking Corporation
3. CTBC Bank (C Formerly Chinatrust Bank)
4. Citibank, NA
5. Development Bank of the Philippines
6. Deutsche Bank
7. Eastwest Banking Corporation
8. Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corporation
9. Land Bank of the Philippines
10. Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company
11. MUFG Bank Ltd. (Formerly The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd.)
12. Philippine Bank of Communications
13. Philtrust Bank
14. Philippine Veterans Bank
15. Philippine National Bank
16. Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation
17. Security Bank
18. Standard Chartered Bank
19. United Coconut Planters Bank
20. Union Bank

You may access the full version of the advisory through the BIR website.