I posted a few weeks ago about registering with BIR to become a Philippines tax payer, the reason for doing this is that I am paying more than PHP5,000 tax on the extra pension that I receive (over and above my UK state pension from) USS, which is the UK Universities pension scheme and I live here permanently in the Philippines. I haven't even been to the UK for more than eight years but they continue to tax my very meagre extra pension and my combined pensions, state and Universities which are abysmally small anyway.
I went today to the provincial BIR office near me in Gitagam which is near Languindingan in Misamis Oriental, to ask for an application form to register for BIR and hopefully get a TIN number but the informed me that all foreigners who want to register for BIR must do so at the BIR office in Makati, Manila and there are a multitude of downloadable application forms to do this though none of them seem to be appropriate.
I'm just wondering if the easiest way of achieving this is to pay an attorney or an accountant to do this for me. Any advice from any foreigners that have had to go this process would be very welcome,