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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.

Text current as at 1 August 2026. This is an unofficial consolidation prepared by the firm and not the official text of the Code. Repealed provisions are kept, struck through, so that references in earlier records stay traceable.
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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 III — ESTATE AND DONOR’S TAXES › CHAPTER I. ESTATE TAX

SEC. 88. Determination of the Value of the Estate

Page 72 of the PDF edition

(A) Usufruct. — To determine the value of the right of usufruct, use or habitation, as well as that of annuity, there shall be taken into account the probable life of the beneficiary in accordance with the latest Basic Standard Mortality Table, to be approved by the Secretary of Finance, upon recommendation of the Insurance Commissioner.

(B) Properties. — The estate shall be appraised at its fair market value as of the time of death. However, the appraised value of real property as of the time of death shall be, whichever is the higher of —

(1) The fair market value as determined by the Commissioner, or

(2) The fair market value as shown in the schedule of values fixed by the Provincial and City Assessors.

Amendment notes

  1. Subsection (B) is modified by sec. 38 of Republic Act No. 12001, the Real Property Valuation and Assessment Reform Act, approved 13 June 2024, insofar as it is inconsistent with that Act. For estate tax purposes the fair market value of real property is determined by reference to the approved Schedule of Market Values under Section 18(a)(3) of that Act rather than to a zonal value prescribed by the Commissioner, Section 6(E) having been repealed by the same Section 38. Existing zonal values continue in force under the saving clause in Section 31 until superseded.
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