(...) New BIR policies mandate hospitals to collect the standard professional fees directly from patients’ payments—that is, 15 percent plus 10-20 percent VAT—before they are released to the physicians. After all these years of withheld tax payment, I have never heard of the BIR refunding doctors who overpay the 15-percent. In the United States, I paid only 10 percent in withheld taxes and I got refunds; here in the Philippines, it’s 15 percent, yet I haven’t received any refunds.
Moreover, practitioners are not allowed “Free Services.” If relatives, friends or charity patients are treated for free, such
gratis et amore service has to be supported by an affidavit. (...)
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