COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, petitioner, vs. HON. COURT OF APPEALS and ATLAS CONSOLIDATED MINING AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, respondents.
FACTS:
Private respondent (Atlas) mining corporation, organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the Philippines, operates a concession in Toledo City, Cebu. It actually used and/or consumed tax paid extra gasoline and diesel fuel for the mining operation purchased on various dates from Mobil Oil Philippines.
On July 19, 1978 Atlas filed with the CIR a written claim for tax credit. There being no action taken on its claim for refund on July 21, 1978, petitioner filed the instant judicial claim for refund.
The period of specific taxes are as follows:
July-Dec. P1,008,648.15 P252,162.04
1976
Jan.-Dec. P1,834,357.27 P458,589.32
1977
Jan.-May P798,573.60 P199,643.49
1978
ISSUE:
Whether private respondent claim for refund of specific taxes paid before 21 July 1976.
HELD:
The claim for refund on the specific tax paid prior to 21 July 1976 had already prescribed because claims for refund should be made within two years from the date of payment of the tax sought to be refunded and Atlas' judicial claim for refund was made only on 21 July 1978.
G.R. No. L-38540 April 30, 1987
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, petitioner, vs. THE COURT OF APPEALS, and NIELSON & COMPANY, INC., respondents.
FACTS:
Private respondent contends that they haven’t received the demand letter dated 16 July 1955 of the CIR assessed of the former’s deficiency taxes for the years 1949 to 1952.
Petitioner wrote private respondent a follow-up letter dated 19 September 1956, reiterating its demand for the payment of taxes as originally demanded in petitioner's letter dated 16 July 1955.
The private respondent did not appeal such follow-up letter dated 19 September 1956.
ISSUE:
Whether the letter of demand dated 16 July 1955 mailed to private respondent arises the presumption that the