As it continues to tread its Digital Transformation Roadmap, the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) announced that it will launch an Online Registration and Update System (ORUS) in 2022 or 2023.
ORUS will accept registration-related transactions. Users need to provide updated information such as contact details and email addresses, where the BIR can send letters, orders and other communication.
In Revenue Memorandum Circular No. 122-2022, the bureau advised taxpayers to update their registration records in preparation for enrollment in the system.
The BIR has been transitioning into digital operations after adopting a 10-year digitalization roadmap in 2019.
BIR Commissioner Lilia C. Guillermo has said that the agency cannot digitalize alone, noting the lukewarm reception by most large taxpayers for digital invoices and receipts.
Guillermo, during the First SyCip Gorres Velayo & Co. Tax Symposium recently, said that only 15 of 100 large taxpayers have responded to the BIR’s pilot program for e-invoicing, e-receipting and e-sales system, with most preferring to maintain manual systems. (Bureau of Internal Revenue)
