Republic Act No. 7167

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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7167 - AN ACT ADJUSTING THE BASIC PERSONAL AND ADDITIONAL EXEMPTIONS ALLOWABLE TO INDIVIDUALS FOR INCOME TAX PURPOSES TO THE POVERTY THRESHOLD LEVEL, AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE Sec. 29, PARAGRAPH (L), ITEMS (1) AND (2)(A), OF THE NATIONAL INTERNAL REVENUE CODE, AS AMENDED, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

REPUBLIC ACTS




Republic of the Philippines
Congress of the Philippines

Metro Manila

Eighth Congress


REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7167
December 19, 1991

AN ACT ADJUSTING THE BASIC PERSONAL AND ADDITIONAL EXEMPTIONS ALLOWABLE TO INDIVIDUALS FOR INCOME TAX PURPOSES TO THE POVERTY THRESHOLD LEVEL, AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE Sec. 29, PARAGRAPH (L), ITEMS (1) AND (2)(A), OF THE NATIONAL INTERNAL REVENUE CODE, AS AMENDED, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:

Section 1. The first paragraph of item (1), paragraph (l) of Sec. 29 of the National Internal Revenue Code, as amended, is hereby further amended to read as follows:

"(l) Personal exemptions allowable to individuals. (1) Basic personal exemption. For the purpose of determining the tax provided in Sec. 21(a) of this Title, there shall be allowed a basic personal exemption as follows:

"For single individual or married individual judicially decreed as legally separated with no qualified dependents

P9,000

"For head of a family

P12,000

"For married individual

P18,000

Provided, that husband and wife electing to compute their income tax separately shall be entitled to a personal exemption of P9,000 each."cjuris

Sec. 2. The first paragraph of item (2)(A), paragraph (l) of Sec. 29 of the same Code, as amended, is hereby further amended to read as follows:

"(2) Additional exemption

"(A) Taxpayers with dependents. A married individual or a head of family shall be allowed an additional exemption of Five thousand pesos (P5,000) for each dependent: provided, that the total number of dependents for which additional exemptions may be claimed shall not exceed four dependents: provided, further, that an additional exemption of One thousand pesos (P1,000) shall be allowed for each child who otherwise qualified as dependent prior to January 1, 1980: provided, finally, that the additional exemption for dependents shall be claimed by only one of the spouses in the case of married individuals electing to compute their income tax liabilities separately."cjuris

Sec. 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: December 19, 1991.

























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