What we do
Full-service assurance, tax, and advisory.
From statutory audit to strategic advisory, our engagements are built on rigor, ethics, and a genuine understanding of your business.
Audit & Assurance
- Financial statements audit
- Internal audit
- Review of historical financial statements
- Review of prospective financial statements
Tax Services
- Tax assessment
- Tax compliance health check
- Tax due diligence
- Tax opinions and rulings
- Tax planning and structuring
- Estate and donor’s tax compliance
Accounting Services
- Bookkeeping
- Compilation of financial statements
- Account reconciliations
- Internal accounting
Advisory & Business Consultancy
- Business policy making
- Financial due diligence
- Risk management
- Strategic management
Corporate Services
- Business registration
- Corporate structuring
- Corporate secretarial
- Payroll processing and compliance
Other Services
- Agreed-upon procedures
- Company profiling & loan application assistance
- Estate planning · Retirement planning and funding
- Contract review · Collection services
- Real estate services and other allied services
Who we serve
Industries we serve.
The reporting framework, the controls, and the regulator differ by sector. Our engagements cover twelve.
Beyond Tacloban City
Engagements run from wherever you are.
Clients elsewhere in Eastern Visayas, in Metro Manila and in other regions work with us without travelling to our office.
Documents turned over online
Records, schedules and supporting documents are exchanged through shared online folders, and reports are delivered the same way.
Meetings by video call
Planning, status and closing meetings are held by video call. Visits are scheduled where the work requires them, such as an inventory count.
Electronic filing
Returns and reports are filed through the online systems of the BIR, the SEC and the other agencies that accept them.
Our Partners
Led by credentialed professionals.
Four partners with national distinctions, international practice, and deep roots in the academe.
Placed 2nd in the May 2018 CPA licensure examination. Trained in assurance and taxation at one of the largest professional services firms in the world before returning to Region VIII, and has since audited MSMEs through to large corporations. Assists taxpayers through BIR audits and assessments. Teaches audit, assurance, and taxation, and authored a CPA reviewer book on auditing.
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Audit and Professional Practice Director at one of the world’s Top 4 professional services firms, serving in its London, New York, and Philippine offices. Sat three consecutive terms on the Audit and Assurance Standards Council, served as National President of PICPA for FY 22-23, and sits on the council of the ASEAN Federation of Accountants. Led Saint Paul School of Professional Studies as President for more than a decade.
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Placed 1st in the May 2018 CPA licensure examination and 10th in the December 2023 Bar. Practice centres on tax compliance and health checks, assistance with tax audits, corporate structuring, and tariff and customs compliance. Began his career as a risk and compliance officer, internal auditor, and data privacy officer. Lectures on taxation and commercial law and reviews for the CPA board examinations.
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More than half a decade in the public practice of accountancy, auditing MSMEs and large corporations across retail and trade, educational institutions, non-profits, importation, and services. Began as an audit associate at a Manila firm. Works in full-cycle accounting and financial reporting with variance and ratio analysis. School accountant and part-time lecturer at SPSPS, and treasurer of PICPA–Tacloban Chapter.
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2nd Floor, Rubber Tree Building, Brgy. 77, 611 BLISS – Fatima Diversion Road, Tacloban City, Philippines 6500
Suite 302, F. Mendoza Complex, Sto. Niño St., Brgy. 28, Tacloban City 6500
0995 398 9482
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AAC Tax Code.
The National Internal Revenue Code of 1997 as it currently stands — consolidated by the firm to carry the TRAIN Law, the CREATE Act, the Ease of Paying Taxes Act, the VAT on Digital Services Act, CREATE MORE, the CMEPA and the amendatory laws in force to 1 August 2026, with a footnote at every provision naming the law that changed it.
The printed edition runs to 240 pages and carries the same text, footnotes and references as the browser below. Every section here shows the page it sits on in that PDF, so a citation taken from the screen matches the one taken from the book.
TITLE I — ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTION OF THE BUREAU OF INTERNAL REVENUE
SEC. 5. Power of the Commissioner to Obtain Information, and to Summon, Examine, and Take Testimony of Persons
In ascertaining the correctness of any return, or in making a return when none has been made, or in determining the liability of any person for any internal revenue tax, or in collecting any such liability, or in evaluating tax compliance, the Commissioner is authorized:
(A) To examine any book, paper, record, or other data which may be relevant or material to such inquiry;
(B) To obtain on a regular basis from any person other than the person whose internal revenue tax liability is subject to audit or investigation, or from any office or officer of the national and local governments, government agencies and instrumentalities, including the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and government-owned or -controlled corporations, any information such as, but not limited to, costs and volume of production, receipts or sales and gross incomes of taxpayers, and the names, addresses, and financial statements of corporations, mutual fund companies, insurance companies, regional operating headquarters of multinational companies, joint accounts, associations, joint ventures or consortia and registered partnerships, and their members: Provided, That the Cooperative Development Authority shall submit to the Bureau a tax incentive report, which shall include information on the income tax, value-added tax, and other tax incentives availed of by cooperatives registered and enjoying incentives under Republic Act No. 6938, as amended: Provided, further, That the information submitted by the Cooperative Development Authority to the Bureau shall be submitted to the Department of Finance and shall be included in the database created under
Republic Act No. 10708, otherwise known as ‘The Tax Incentives Management and Transparency Act (TIMTA)’.1
(C) To summon the person liable for tax or required to file a return, or any officer or employee of such person, or any person having possession, custody, or care of the books of accounts and other accounting records containing entries relating to the business of the person liable for tax, or any other person, to appear before the Commissioner or his duly authorized representative at a time and place specified in the summons and to produce such books, papers, records, or other data, and to give testimony;
(D) To take such testimony of the person concerned, under oath, as may be relevant or material to such inquiry; and
(E) To cause revenue officers and employees to make a canvass from time to time of any revenue district or region and inquire after and concerning all persons therein who may be liable to pay any internal revenue tax, and all persons owning or having the care, management or possession of any object with respect to which a tax is imposed.
The provisions of the foregoing paragraphs notwithstanding, nothing in this Section shall be construed as granting the Commissioner the authority to inquire into bank deposits other than as provided for in Section 6(F) of this Code.
Amendment notes
- TRAIN Law, sec. 3 — inserted.