Coverage.
Section 17
SEC. 17 Coverage. - There is hereby authorized and granted a tax amnesty herein called the Tax Amnesty of Delinquencies, which shall cover all national internal revenue taxes such as, but not limited to, income tax, withholding tax, capital gains tax, donor's tax, value-added tax, other percentage taxes, excise tax and documentary stamp tax collected by the Bureau of Internal Revenue, including value-added tax and excise taxes collected by the Bureau of Customs for taxable year 2017 and prior years. For purposes of this Act, the Tax Amnesty on Delinquencies may be availed of in the following instances: (a) Delinquencies and assessments, which have become final and executory, including delinquent tax account, where the application for compromise has been requested on the basis of: (1) doubtful validity of the assessment; or (2) financial incapacity of the taxpayer, but the same was denied by the Regional Evaluation Board or the National Evaluation Board, as the case may be, on or before the Implementing Rules and Regulations take effect; (b) Pending criminal cases with the Department of Justice or the courts for tax evasion and other criminal offenses under Chapter II of Title X and Section 275 of the National Internal Revenue Code of 1997, as amended, with or without assessments duly issued; (c) Tax cases subject of final and executory judgment by the courts on or before the Implementing Rules and Regulations take effect; and (d) Withholding tax agents who withheld taxes but failed to remit the same to the Bureau of Internal Revenue.