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Preliminary Assessment Notice

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  1. What is the ordinary purpose of a Preliminary Assessment Notice in a deficiency-tax investigation?
  2. What is the ordinary period to respond to a PAN under RR 12-1999, as applied in Prime Steel Mill?
  3. Which deficiency finding is expressly a statutory exception to the PAN requirement under NIRC section 228?
  4. A taxpayer receives a PAN and submits its written response ten days later. Is that response outside the ordinary fiftee…
  5. An auditor determines a discrepancy between tax actually withheld and the amount remitted by the withholding agent. Doe…
  6. A taxpayer receives a PAN on day zero and has not replied. On day seven the BIR issues its FLD/FAN, before the fifteen-…
  7. A taxpayer disputes alleged unreported sales using reconciliations and invoices in a timely PAN response. The BIR ignor…
  8. Explain the PAN’s function and the ordinary response period, distinguishing it from a final assessment protest.
  9. Give two express section 228 exceptions to the PAN requirement and explain why they do not establish a universal power …
  10. Under Prime Steel Mill, evaluate issuance of an FLD/FAN before the taxpayer’s fifteen-day PAN response period expires w…
  11. Section228 recognizes a PAN exception when what remains unpaid?
  12. Which transfer is expressly described in Section228(e)’s PAN exception?