5 Practical Tips for Apartment Hunting During a Pandemic

Looking for a place to rent when you’re coming from a different city thousand miles away can be difficult. Moreover, when you are in a global pandemic, finding the best apartment is downright impossible. Aside from the fact that you cannot check out the properties physically, you’re generally left speculating what neighborhood would be ideal …

Minimalist Living Room / 5 Simple Tips on Living a Minimalist Lifestyle in the Philippines

Minimalist Living Room / Filipino families love to hoard! It’s not even speculation but a fact. Your nanay, tatay, or both surely collect some stack of things that they don’t use anymore.  And the worst part is that they don’t throw these things, thinking they will use them in the future. This makes it very difficult to …

SSS Online Application and Services You Need to Know

We are now in an era where routines are fast, safe, and convenient.  Indeed, modern technology has made our life so much easier. Amidst the health crisis, when our movements are restricted, we turn to the internet for our financial transactions and other tasks.  Through a device and an internet connection, we can shop, pay our …

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Gcash Convenience Fee / How to avoid the 1% Convenience Fee When Cashing in your GCash Wallet

UPDATE:  As of January 2022, the 7-Eleven’s CLIQQ kiosk charges 1% of your total cash-in amount as convenience fee. Gcash Convenience Fee / The pandemic changes how we do our financial transactions. Online banking and mobile wallets are essentials more than ever, in this time when we need to stay at home to avoid face-to-face interaction. …

2021 Complete Guide to Online Filing and Payment of the Quarterly Percentage Tax (BIR Form 2551Q) for Small Business Owners and Freelancers

The passage of RA No. 11534, or the Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises (CREATE) Act, was a welcome news to small business owners and freelancers struggling to survive in the worst global economic disaster.  The new law changed the Percentage Tax rate from 3% to 1% on gross sales of goods or services …

Lumina Homes Bacolod East: Helping Negrenses Achieve their Lifelong Dream of Homeownership

One of the challenges of parenthood is letting your children go and find their places under the sun. Most parents would agree that it is not easy to allow our children to go abroad, work for a company and live alone in a foreign land, thousands of miles away. However, our children will not be …

TIN Verifier Mobile Application: Taxpayer’s Identification Number (TIN) Inquiry and Validation at Your Fingertips

All of us are adapting to the new normal. The extended lockdown in the country allowed private and public businesses to innovate to serve their customers continuously. Recently, the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) launched its online TIN verification channel. The BIR TIN Verifier Mobile Application allows taxpayers to validate their TIN online or inquire …

6 Fast and Convenient Ways of Paying BIR Taxes

Skip the long lines and throw those tax forms when filing and paying your taxes.  The Bureau of Internal Revenue’s (BIR) new electronic payment system accepts tax returns’ online filing and payment.   You can pay your tax due through any of the Authorized Agent Banks’ (AABs) internet banking system and other payment centers authorized …

The Complete Guide to Using the Electronic BIR Forms (eBIRForms) Offline Package Version 7.6 for Online Tax Filing and Payment

Income earners in the Philippines, whether individual or corporation, are required to pay income taxes to the government. Taxes provide funds for the government to be able to finance its projects and programs.     There are different types of taxes that you need to file and pay, depending on the nature of your income. …