“When it rains, it really pours!” This line best describes the controversies hounding the Bureau of Customs for the past few months and there is no sign that this is going to stop soon.
Recently, a netizen from Pangasinan aired her disappointment with matching photo of the receipt from the Customs after dropping by at the Post Office to claim the package from her OFW cousin working in South Korea. Her excitement was replaced with disgust after going home empty handed.
She narrated that the package contains chocolates, a bag and two dresses, but was shocked to discover she owed 2,047.00 pesos. In her post, she tagged the sender to inform her that package remained at the Customs until dues are paid.
The netizen ended her post by saying, “Grabeng customs yan! Ang sarap magmura!”
The post has already generated more than 2K SHARES and hundreds of LIKES as of this writing and is expected to grow in a couple of days. You may check the screenshot of the post below:
Let us wait and see how the Customs will respond to this post.
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The BOC should educate the people and inform them about items that will be subject to tax and how the taxes are calculated. Anyone would be shocked when people do not expect to be taxed and suddenly saddled with a huge tax to pay. A few personal examples are: a friend brought a used toy plane which can be operated with remote control just to fly it and bring it back to Australia after their holiday. He was taxed. A friend went home during Christmas and brought some frozen steaks from NZ in an ski.. not commercial quantity yet they were taxed. We can give the BOC the benefit of the doubt that they are honest and only enforcing the law… I think it would be easier on them and us… would be victims … if we have a way of knowing in advance what we will be in for upon arriving at NAIA…
Taxing an obvious personal items is gross and totally irresponsible and unfair. But taxing the insurance and postage paid on mailing the item is abusive and so ignorant and stupid. BOC should apologized to both sender and receiver, rescind all charges, and immediately stop this nonsense and clear abuse of government power. Shame on you BOC!
insurance may tax- dapat ang insurance company ang sisingilin nito sila ang kumita eh; ang freight din may tax- dapat ang freight company ang sisingilin din nito kasi sila din ang kumita; tapos 120 USD lang ang halaga tinatax pa din, nuong araw may minimum taxable value =500 USD; Palagay ko pahirap ito sa mga OFW na naghihirap naman kumita sa abroad tapos pababayarin pa ang beneficiary na hirap din, kaya ayon naiiwan sa BOC… Sa palagay ko hindi dapat ganito… Chief Faeldon, paki dinig nga itong issue na ito.. hindi ba may rason naman ang hinaing ng mga OFW at receipients nila?