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BIR 2316 (Year 2015)

Requested from BIR by J. SAYSON at 10:27 PM on Oct 07, 2022.
Purpose: Canada Express Entry Application
Date of Coverage: 01/01/2015 - 10/09/2015
Tracking no: #BIR-342595532297

SAYSON 10:27 PM, Oct 07, 2022 

Hi! I would like to request a copy of my BIR 2316 Year 2015. I failed to get a hard copy of it from my previous employer last 2015. 

Hoping for your response. 

Thank you.


October 10, 2022

Dear Ms. Sayson:

Greetings!

Thank you for your request dated Oct 07, 2022 under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch.

Your request

You asked for BIR Form 2316 (Year 2015).

Response to your request

Please be informed that such request cannot be granted by this Office since the aforesaid Certificate of Withholding Tax (BIR Form 2316) were issued in 2015 and records of our Revenue District Office (RDO) on those periods are already unavailable since we follow strictly the five (5) year retention period based on existing revenue issuances of the BIR (per Revenue Memorandum Circular 73-2008).

It will be practical and appropriate for you to refer to your employer and ask for the said copies where it actually originated because all taxpayers/employers are required to preserve their accounting records for the period of 10 years in accordance with the Revenue Memorandum Circular No. 29-2019.

Thank you.

Respectfully yours,

FOI Officer
Public Information and Education Division

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