Legal Question in Employment Law in Philippines

Tax Sheild

What does tax sheild means, is it legal and how will it affect an employees salary?

I see people mostly working in a call center, telling that they have tax sheild of 20% how is this computed in the payroll?Please give an example...thank you


Asked on 10/13/07, 11:30 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys

Reynaldo Destura Destura & Associates Law Offices

Re: Tax Sheild

tax shield is a payroll scheme of not declaring the entire amount of salary received and instead providing for allowable and/or deductible expense. Hard to show sample computation. You need to be an accountant or a lawyer to do it.

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Answered on 10/15/07, 7:44 pm


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