Income tax exemption? Is that the exit tax Filipinos pay when they leave then? My wife didn't have to pay it last time we left as she had lived overseas for more than a year. Still charged 200 pesos 'administration' costs for a tax she was not liable to pay though!!Originally posted by deepete@Dec 26 2005, 03:17 PM
No, as far as I know it was always the case that ex citizens could ask for and get the balikbayan stamp, and I have been travelling there since `89`. It got a lot easier after my wife used her British passport as she didnt have to pay the income tax on leaving. Also the less dealings with the P.I. embassy here the better.
When we made our second visit all those years ago, and she was travelling on her filipino passport we applied for a tax exemption cert here in London as she wasnt working, cost a couple of quid plus a lot of hassle. When she tried to exit Manilla to return home they told her she should have had it countersigned at some office in Manilla, complete waste of time, so we payed up and said never again , or words of a similar nature.
Indonesians pay 1,000,000 Rupiah when they leave their country, which is about US$100.
You should check out the taxes and costs for leaving the UK as well, though they are usually buried in with the price of the ticket so people don't go ballistic.
