Section 4
SEC. 4. Section twenty-four of Commonwealth Act Numbered Four hundred sixty-six, as amended, is further amended to read as follows: "SEC. 24. Rate of tax on corporations.—(a) Tax on domestic corporations.—In general there shall be levied, collected, and paid annually upon the total net income received in the preceding taxable year from all sources by every corporation organized in, or existing under the laws of the Philippines, no matter how created or organized, but not including duly registered general copartnerships (companias colectivas), domestic life insurance companies and foreign life insurance companies doing business in the Philippines, a tax upon such income equal to the sum of the following: "Twenty-two per centum upon the amount by which such total net income does not exceed one hundred thousand pesos; and "Thirty per centum upon the amount by which such total net income exceeds one hundred thousand pesos; and a like tax shall be levied, collected, and paid annually upon the total net income received in the preceding taxable year from all sources within the Philippines by every corporation organized, authorized, or existing under the laws of any foreign country: Provided, however, That building and loan associations operating as such in accordance with sections one hundred and seventy-one to one hundred and ninety of the Corporation Law, as amended, as well as private educational institutions, shall pay a tax of twelve per centum and ten per centum, respectively, on their total net income: And provided, further, That in the case of dividends received by a domestic or resident foreign corporation from a domestic corporation liable to tax under this Chapter or from a domestic corporation engaged in a new and necessary industry, as denned under Republic Numbered Nine hundred and one, only twenty-five per centum thereof shall be returnable for purposes on the tax imposed by this section. "(b) Tax on foreign corporations.— (1) Nonresident corporations.—There shall be levied, collected, and paid for each taxable year, in lieu of the tax imposed by the preceding paragraph, upon the amount received by every foreign corporation not engaged in trade or business within the Philippines, from all sources within the Philippines, as interest, dividends, rents, salaries, wages, premiums annuities, compensations, remunerations, emoluments, or other fixed or determinable annual or periodical gains, profits, and income, a tax equal to thirty per centum of such amount. "(2) Resident corporations.—A foreign corporation engaged in trade or business within the Philippines (except foreign life insurance companies) shall be taxable as provided in subsection (a) of this section. "(c) Rate of tax on life insurance companies.—There shall be levied, assessed, collected and paid annually from every life insurance company organized in or existing under the laws of the Philippines, or foreign life insurance company authorized to carry on business in the Philippines, but not including purely cooperative companies or associations as denned in section two hundred fifty-five of this Code, on the total investment income received by such company during the preceding taxable year from interest, dividends, and rents from all sources, whether from or without the Philippines, a tax of six and one-half per centum upon such income: Provided, however, That foreign life insurance companies not doing business in the Philippines shall, on any investment income received by them from the Philippines, be subject to tax as any other foreign corporation. "The total net investment income of domestic life insurance companies is the gross investment income received during the taxable year from rents, dividends, and interest less deductions for real estate expenses, depreciation, interest paid within the taxable year on its indebtedness except on indebtedness incurred to purchase or carry obligation the interest upon which is wholly exempt from taxation under existing laws, and such investment expenses aid during the taxable year as are ordinary and necessary the conduct of the investments; and the total net investment income of foreign life insurance companies doing business in the Philippines is that portion of their gross world investment income which bears the same ratio to such income as their total Philippine reserve bears to their total world reserve less that portion of their total world investment expenses which bear the same ratio to such expenses as their total Philippine investment income bears to their total world investment income."