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SyCipLaw’s Tax Department has prepared Tax Issues and Practical Solutions (T.I.P.S.) for January.

The SyCipLaw T.I.P.S. for January 2026 covers the following tax issues:

  1. May the Court of Tax Appeals suspend tax collection proceedings when the summary remedy of distraint and/or levy was commenced even before the assessment became final and executory?
  2. May the Court of Tax Appeals dispense with the bond requirement when suspending tax collection?
  3. May a compromise payment made during a failed mediation for an ongoing tax assessment case be refunded? 
  4. Is a taxpayer’s right to due process violated by the failure to conduct the required minimum number of surveillance days under Oplan Kandado? 

This bulletin was prepared by Catherina M. Fernandez, special counsel and a member of SyCipLaw’s Tax Department, with the assistance of Associates Janelle A. Sy and Gilbert Charles K. Tiong.

Please read the full text here or via this link. 

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For further information, please contact:

Carina C. Laforteza – SyCipLaw,
cclaforteza@syciplaw.com

Carina C. Laforteza – SyCipLaw

Ms. Laforteza, an expert in Philippine taxation and corporate law, with extensive experience in tax structuring, litigation, and mergers. She's a CPA and lecturer at UP College of Law.

Ms. Laforteza is an expert on Philippine taxation and her tax work ranges from tax structuring for corporations, individuals, estates, tax compliance, as well as tax-related litigation and arbitration, including safeguard measures investigations. She is also an experienced corporate lawyer and has handled mergers, acquisitions and divestments (including transaction structuring, documentation and due diligence), as well as financing work, where she has acted for both lenders and borrowers.

She is a professorial lecturer in taxation at the University of the Philippines – College of Law and was a bar examiner in Taxation in the 2020/2021 Bar Examination given by the Philippine Supreme Court. 

Ms. Laforteza is also a certified public accountant.

She has been ranked by Chambers Asia Pacific as a Pacific since 2010.

Link to corporate profile: https://syciplaw.com/lawyers/partners/CCLaforteza

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