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Philippines exempts gold sales to c.bank from taxes to boost foreign reserves

Published 05/22/2019, 03:19 PM
Updated 05/22/2019, 03:20 PM
Philippines exempts gold sales to c.bank from taxes to boost foreign reserves

MANILA, May 22 (Reuters) - The Philippines has passed a law
exempting gold sales by small-scale miners to the central bank
from excise and income taxes to beef up the country's foreign
exchange reserves and prevent smuggling, the Bangko Sentral ng
Pilipinas said on Wednesday.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte signed the law into
effect on March 29, the central bank said in a statement.
By law, all gold produced by small miners in the Philippines
should be sold to the central bank at around world market
prices. However, miners have circumvented taxes introduced in
2011 by selling gold on the black market.
Gold sold to the central bank fell 99 percent to 10,000 fine
troy ounces this year from more than 900,000 fine troy ounces in
2010 because of taxes imposed in 2011, government data showed.
An increase in the country's gross international reserves
will improve the country's economic standing and lower the
government and the private sector's cost of funding, the central
bank said as a reason for the exemption.
This should more than offset the 35 million pesos ($666,793)
the government expects to lose annually in foregone revenues
from the tax exemptions.
The tax exemption also includes the sale of gold by
small-scale miners to accredited traders, which then sell the
precious metal to the central bank.
Gold accounted for nearly 10% of the country's gross
international reserves of $83.96 billion at end April.


($1 = 52.4900 Philippine pesos)

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