BIR MEMORANDUM ORDER NO. 5-2000, January 18, 2000

SUSPENSION ISSUANCE OF LETTERS OF AUTHORITY OR ORDERS TO AUDIT AND/OR INVESTIGATE

National Administrative Register January 18, 2000
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Effective immediately, no letters of authority, mission orders, or
any written orders to audit and/or investigate income tax, value added
tax and other internal revenue taxes shall be issued or made for any
internal revenue taxes, except in the following cases:

1.  Taxes which will prescribe this year under the statute of limitations unless timely assessed or collected;

2.  Capital gains tax, estate tax and donor’s tax cases; and

3.  Those specifically to be assigned by the undersigned.

All Heads of Enforcement Service, Revenue Regions, Tax Fraud
Division, Special Teams, and any other units which were authorized to
audit and/or investigate shall submit to the Office of the Commissioner,
National Office Building not later than January 31, 2000 a complete and
detailed list or inventory of all cases completed, and/or terminated
from January 1999 to January 2000 and the pending cases as of December
31, 1999, for which letters of authority, or mission orders have been
issued.

Adopted: 18 Jan. 2000

(SGD.) DAKILA B. FONACIER
Commissioner of Internal Revenue