Under the Revised Corporation Code, a single stockholder may now form a corporation. Said corporation is called a One Person Corporation (“OPC”). The single stockholder in an OPC should be a natural person, trustee or estate. Banks and quasi-banks, preneed, trust, insurance, public and publicly listed companies, and non chartered government owned and controlled corporations may not incorporate as an OPC. A natural person who is licensed to exercise a profession may not organi

President Rodrigo Duterte has finally passed into law Republic Act No. 11213 otherwise known as the “Tax Amnesty Act.” Under the law, the amnesty tax to be paid for estates of decedents whose deaths occurred on or before December 31, 2017, is reduced to six percent (6%) based on the total net estate at the time of death. If the allowable deductions at the time of death exceed the value of the gross estate, the minimum estate amnesty tax of Php5,000.00 shall be paid. The lega

A Black List Order (BLO) is one that bars a foreigner from entering the Philippines. This is usually because the foreigner has committed a violation of one or more of the immigration laws of the Philippines. Being discourteous to an immigration official upon arrival in the Philippines can even be considered a ground to black list a foreigner from the Philippines. Remember, black listing is discretionary on the part of the Bureau of Immigration which is why foreigners have to