From LOA through Notice of Discrepancy to Final Assessment — we handle every stage: the documents, the reconciliations, the position papers, the meetings. You keep running the business; we face the BIR, and we stay until it's fully resolved.
An LOA arrived. The clock started the day it was served — not the day you decide how to respond.
Your staff has stopped working. Weeks lost to compiling records, and the examiner still receives an incomplete set.
The proposed assessment. Opening figures are built to be negotiated down — what survives a reconciliation is what actually matters.
Your previous adviser went quiet. The relationship that mattered most stopped right before the meeting that mattered most.
Before anything leaves your office, we check exactly what the Letter of Authority authorizes — the taxable year, the named examiners, the date of service. What falls outside that scope doesn't go out the door.
A defense you can see the shape of from day one. Every stage ends in something you can point to — not a vague phase.
First 24–72 hours: the LOA is read and scoped — taxable year, named examiners, service date — and the first response is filed. From here, the correspondence is ours.
Records reconciled, schedules built, position paper drafted and filed inside the reglementary period, conferences attended — every item supported, explained, or conceded, never by silence.
Assessment settled, reduced, or withdrawn, and documented where you can find it in three years — then we fix what produced it, with follow-ups at 30, 90, and 180 days.
Same case, two ways it can go. Hover a moment, or let the week run.
Not every case needs the same urgency. Answer three questions and watch where your file actually sits.
Self-assessment only — every case is scoped individually on the actual documents.
Same man, same knowledge, pointed the other way. That is the entire premise of this firm.
Years as a BIR tax examiner, assembling the assessments that land on desks like yours. He knows what goes into one because he used to put it there.
Luis Rodrigo Jumao-as, CPA — Managing Partner. 20+ years of combined tax and public practice, PICPA member in good standing, defending owners through the very audits he once conducted.
Defense engagements start at ₱50,000, priced on the size and stage of the case rather than on hours. Pick the shape of yours.
An LOA just served, one year and one tax type in scope — entered while the cheapest moves are still on the table.
Income tax, VAT and withholding examined together — or a file already at Notice of Discrepancy, on a tighter clock.
Several taxable years, argued in writing and filed as a formal protest. Priced for the schedules it has to stand on.
Two or more entities examined together, or a record built to litigation grade alongside your own counsel.
Don't ignore it and don't hand over records informally. Call us before responding — the first response sets the tone and the timeline. We'll review the LOA's scope and validity and take over the correspondence properly.
Frequently, yes. Assessments often include items that fail on reconciliation, prescription, or documentation grounds — and surcharges and compromise penalties have rules we hold the BIR to. Our best single-client result: ₱1.2M in penalties avoided. (*Results depend on the facts of each case.)
Yes — with proper authorization we attend the meetings, receive the correspondence, and speak the examiner's language, so your team stays out of it and nothing is conceded by accident.
If a case warrants judicial protest at the CTA, we prepare the accounting record to litigation grade and work alongside your legal counsel — many disputes are won or lost on the quality of the schedules.
Then we need to know before the examiner does. We'd rather find the exposure ourselves, quantify it, and decide what gets conceded and what gets defended — on your terms and on your timeline. Nothing is volunteered that isn't asked for, and nothing is buried that will surface later.
Free, no obligation — you walk away with actionable insights whether we work together or not, and a personalized action plan lands in your inbox after.
Book your free consultation →Examiners do not audit the defense — they audit the books, the return and the registration behind it. When one firm produced all three, the schedule they ask for already exists. Same file, same firm, no handover.
