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EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 996 - REVISING
THE PERCENTAGE TAX RATE ON LOCALLY PRODUCED CRUDE OIL
WHEREAS, under Executive Order No. 988 the
rate of the additional import duty imposed under Executive Order No.
955, series of 1984, was reduced from 10% to 5% for petroleum products
imports effective October 15, 1984, thereby reducing the effective rate
of import duty on imported crude oil from thirty-three per centrum
(33%) to twenty-seven and one-half per centum (27.5%).
WHEREAS, locally produced crude oil is subject to the payment of
percentage tax equivalent to thirty-three per centum of the
international market price thereof as prescribed under Section 199(b)
of the National Internal Revenue Code as amended;
WHEREAS, it is necessary to revise the percentage tax rate on locally
produced crude oil in order that the price thereof be placed at par
with imported crude oil.
NOW THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by
virtue of the powers vested in me under Sec. 290-B of the National
Internal Revenue Code, as amended, do hereby direct and order that:
Section 1.
“SECTION
199(b).
For purposes of this subsection,
“indigenous petroleum” shall include locally extracted mineral oil,
hydrocarbon gas, bitumen, crude asphalt mineral gas and all other
similar or naturally associated substances with the exception of coal,
peat, bituminous shale and/or stratified mineral deposits.
In enforcing the provisions of
this subsection, Section 12 and the relevant provisions of Chapter II
of Title IV of this Code shall apply.”
Sec. 2.
Sec. 3.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 13th day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred
and eighty-four.
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