Republic Act No. 4122

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:

Section 1

Section one hundred and eighty-five of Commonwealth Act Numbered Four hundred and sixty-six, as amended, is hereby further amended by deleting from subsection (g) thereof the following articles: phonographs, combination radio and phonograph sets, television sets, combination radio and televisions sets, gramophones, and similar articles for reproducing music.

Section 2

A new section is hereby inserted between Sections one hundred eighty-five and one hundred eighty-six, which shall read as follows:

"Sec. 185-B. Percentage tax on sales of phonographs, combination radio and phonograph sets of all types, television sets, combination radio and television sets, combination radio-phonograph-televisions sets, gramophones and similar articles.— There shall be levied, assessed, and collected, one only on every original sale, barter, exchange, or similar transaction intended to transfer ownership of, or title to, the articles hereinbelow enumerated a tax equivalent to thirty per centum of the gross selling price or gross value in money of the articles so sold, bartered, exchanged or transferred, such tax to be paid by the manufacturer or producer: Provided, However, That where the articles hereinbelow enumerated are locally manufactured articles as hereinafter defined, the tax shall be seven per centum: Provided, further, That where the articles enumerated hereinbelow are manufactured from materials subject to tax under this section, the total cost of such materials shall be deducted from the gross selling price or gross value in money of such manufactured articles:

(a) Phonographs;

(b) Combination radio and phonograph sets of all types;

(c) Television sets;

(d) Combination radio and television sets;

(e) Combination radio-phonograph-television sets;

(f) Gramophones; and

(g) Similar articles for reproducing and/or recording music and sound, like tape recorders, etc.

"The words ‘locally manufactured articles’ means articles manufactured in a manufacturing enterprise which processes physically and/or chemically raw materials such as copper clad boards, silicon, steel laminations, other metal sheets, wires, plastic powder and/or pallets, fiber boards, wood, metallic and non-metallic tubes, roads, special paper, etc., into the various intermediate components and parts, and subsequently assembling or fitting them together with other imported collaterals or intermediate components and parts into such completed and finished articles: Provided, However, That if the following parts are intermediate components of a finished article, except as used in the tuner assembly, they must be locally manufactured within the manufactured enterprise or any other local manufacturing enterprise:

1. Printed circuit roads;

2. Transformers;

3. Coils, except yoke and flyback, and sheet metalware attached thereto except the mask;

4. Cabinets;

5. Chassis."

Section 3

This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 20, 1964.