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Sunday, July 8, 2012

North Camarines vs. CIR


NORTH CAMARINES LUMBER CO., INC. v. CIR
GR No. L-12353, September 30, 1960
109 PHIL 511
FACTS: The petitioner sold more than 2M boardfeet of logs to General
Lumber Co. with the agreement that the
latter would pay the sales taxes. The CIR, upon consultation officially
advised the parties that the bureau
interposes no objection so long as the tax due shall be covered by a
surety. General Lumber complied, but later
failed, with the surety, to pay the tax liabilities, and so the respondent
collector required the petitioner to pay
thru a letter dated August 30, 1955. Twice did the petitioner filed a
request for reconsideration before finally
submitting the denied request for appeal before the Court of Tax Appeals.
The CTA dismissed the appeal as it
was clearly filed out of time. The petitioner had consumed thirty-three
days from the receipt of the demand,
before filing the appeal. Petitioner argued that in computing the 30-day
period in perfecting the appeal the letter
of the respondent Collector dated January 30, 1956, denying the second
request for reconsideration, should be
considered as the final decision contemplated in Section 7, and not the
letter of demand dated August 30,
1955.
ISSUE: Is the contention of the petitioner tenable?
HELD: No. This contention is untenable. We cannot countenance that
theory that would make the
commencement of the statutory 30-day period solely dependent on the
will of the taxpayer and place the latter
in a position to put off indefinitely and at his convenience the finality of a
tax assessment. Such an absurd
procedure would be detrimental to the interest of the Government, for
"taxes are the lifeblood of the
government, and their prompt and certain availability is an imperious
need."

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