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[Self-Employed] How to File and Pay for the BIR Annual Fee Online

January 27, 2021 by Ray L. Leave a Comment

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As a self-employed blogger, I’m required to register with the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and pay taxes to the government. Aside from issuing receipts and paying my taxes personally, I also need to pay an annual registration fee of P500 (as of Jan. 2021) every year and I have to pay it before the start of February to avoid penalties. If you’re a self-employed individual like me, you’ll need to pay for that too.

When I went to the BIR RDO (Revenue District Office) where I’m registered in order to pay for the registration fee, a very helpful employee told me to file it online using eBIR and either pay for it in their accredited banks, or through GCash. Thankfully, the employee at the front desk taught me what I needed to click on and fill up in the eBIR forms using their 0605 payment form.

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“Never Call a Brownout a Burnout”: Three Tips to Survive Hard Times

December 21, 2020 by Ray L. Leave a Comment

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We’ll all go through hard times, and sometimes things get so severe that they completely drain our inspiration and motivation. Bad things happen to everyone, but we have to remember that if we can’t seem to face and solve our problems right now, that doesn’t mean that we won’t be able to get through them eventually.

When faced with so many problems and losses, sometimes it’s better to just take a step back, rest for a little bit, and try to put your problems into perspective. Things may get bad, but you need to strengthen your faith in your ability to get through it.

Here’s a few lessons to remember when you are facing hard times.

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Thought Habits Matter: Will You be a “Victim” or a “Victor”?

November 16, 2020 by Ray L. 1 Comment

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One major fact of life that people take for granted is that our thoughts determine our future. Remember, we act on our thoughts and impulses, and our actions can lead to either good or bad consequences. For example, if you seriously start thinking of stealing an expensive cellphone or gadget, you’d go to jail and ruin your future. If, on the other hand, you think of things like starting a business or improving your career, then you might actually become more successful when you act on those things you think about.

Note: Before we continue, I have to make this clear. In this article, being a “victim” isn’t about actual victims of emotional, physical, or sexual abuse. This article is about the negative mindset of always making excuses, giving up, and quitting when faced with life’s challenges. Being a “victor” on the other hand is about that positive mindset where you persevere through hardships and keep looking for solutions until you succeed.

There’s a difference between having a “victim” mentality and having a “victor” mentality. Do you know the kind of mindset that you have?

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Three Valuable Lessons from the Desiderata

October 7, 2020 by Ray L. Leave a Comment

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I still remember all those sleepy mornings several years ago when my family would wake up before 5am to eat breakfast and my brother and I would prepare to go to school. There wasn’t much to do way back then. There were no cellphones or social media sites to distract us, and there were no decent TV shows to watch that early in the morning.

During all those years of mine in grade school and highschool, we had a small wooden plaque hanging over our dinner table and it had a poem written on it, the Desiderata, by Max Ehrmann. That was the only thing I could read in the dining room all those years, and I learned some incredibly valuable lessons from it. I’d like to share what I learned with you here.

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How to Avoid Scams Online: SMS Spoofing and Phishing

September 2, 2020 by Ray L. Leave a Comment

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While I’ve already made a previous article about how to avoid scams online, this version is mostly about phishing and SMS spoofing scams which are becoming more common in the Philippines. If you don’t want to lose thousands or even millions of pesos to those kinds of scams, then keep reading to learn more about them and how to avoid them.

First off, to give you a picture of how phishing scams work, imagine you’re in a mall buying groceries. Suddenly, a “worker from an electric company” comes up to you and asks you for your name, home address, and the keys to your house because they need to “verify things”.

Will you give them your house keys?

You don’t want to? What if they say they’ll cut off your electricity if you refuse? Will you give them your address and house keys then?

Yeah, you probably already know that it’s OBVIOUSLY a scam, but people fall for that kind of thing ONLINE. That is exactly how phishing scams work, but instead of a scammer wearing a fake uniform and fake ID, it’s a text message or an email asking for your password, One-time PINs (OTPs), verification codes, and other important personal information.

Never give anyone your password, PINs, and OTPs as those are the “keys” to your accounts. REAL bank and company employees will never ask for that information, but criminals almost always do.

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