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Republic Act No. 438 (RA 438) — An Act to Amend Paragraph (A) of Section Two Hundred One and Section Three Hundred Thirty-Four of Commonwealth Act Numbered Four Hundred Sixty-Six, as Amended, Known as the National Internal Revenue Code.

Republic Act No. 438 (RA 438) — An Act to Amend Paragraph (A) of Section Two Hundred One and Section Three Hundred Thirty-Four of Commonwealth Act Numbered Four Hundred Sixty-Six, as Amended, Known as the National Internal Revenue Code.

Republic Act No. 438 · Republic Act · Approved June 7, 1950 · 3 sections

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Section 1

SECTION 1. Paragraph (a) of section two hundred one of Commonwealth Act Numbered Four hundred sixty-six, known as the National Internal Revenue Code, is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 201. (a) Lawyers, medical practitioners, land surveyors, architects, certified public accountants, civil, electrical, chemical, mechanical or mining engineers, insurance agents and sub-agents, veterinarians, dental surgeons, opticians, professional appraisers or connoisseurs of tobacco and other domestic or foreign products, licensed ship masters, and marine chief engineers, fifty pesos."

Section 2

SEC. 2. Section three hundred thirty-four of Commonwealth Act Numbered Four hundred sixty-six, known as the National Internal Revenue Code, is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 334. Corporations, companies, partnerships or persons required to keep journal and ledger.-All corporations, companies, partnerships or persons required by law to pay internal revenue taxes shall keep a journal and a ledger, or their equivalents: Provided, however, That those whose gross quarterly sales, earnings, receipts or output do not exceed five thousand pesos shall keep and use a simplified set of bookkeeping records recommended by the Collector of Internal Revenue and approved by the Secretary of Finance."

Section 3

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval. Approved, June 7, 1950.

Source: Supreme Court E-Library, Republic of the Philippines. Philippine laws are public documents (works of the government).

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