11.12.2022 11pm

11.12.2022 11pm

dear diary good morning or i say good pm! i just woke up.. all alone in the house..working hard now to do urgent things for our soldering business. last friday , BIR San Pablo again visited our house/ and shop and deliver a warrant letter that my properties/ assets will soon be freezed.. wow, i am just a poor man..i am very scared/ depressed now

i really dont know how it reach this point, they audited our little shop in 2020-2021 at the height of pandemic & lockdowns.

they are saying that our sales in ITR 2019 & the total monthly VAT is not the same, & the purchases are deficient. and they are asking me of penalty of 1.6 Million pesos.. how on the earth this happen? we have a bookkeeper that files all to comply to BIR Binan requirements, our shop is a tiny shop, a very small shop..it barely survived the pandemic.. i dont even afford to buy a new car, then tax people is saying i need to pay tax penalty of 1.6M what the fuck.

When i am complying with the reports & documents the Auditor needed., fter i submitted partially, the Auditor said, i am "off the hook" & will not be included to those that will be "penalized' or be subpoenaed. since I am just have lacking some few purchases documentsfrom abroad, since most of our items are imported from China, Indonesia & USA.

she said she is pregnant & will soon get on maternity leave.. i become complacent. and thought all are all right, because what she said is only the problem with the purchases, i never remember them saying our ITR 2019 & the total monthly vat sales 2019 are not the same. i dont know how this happen, as we are always very honest in writing all the sales we have, as our clients are all well known companies, so we always issue sales invoice & collection receipts

I thought all are alright, all are good, & we can focus in our work , i can have now time to focus more in my life..

then bulaga, suddently, i received a letter from BIR that i need to pay penalty of 1.6 Million pesos. i really got depressed and scared of this.. if there is really a mistake on my part, it is negligence or overconfidence that all are ok, i become lazy to check & visit BIR san pablo to see that all are ok,. also in this time of Audit, it is the height of pandemic & lockdowns, i am depressed & also the business climate is not really good.

now that i am having this non-ending BIR problems, i just realized, there are people/ entity that you cannot ignore.. you can ignore your Jowa, GF, wife, or anybody that annoys you...you can choose to ignore many problems/ issues in your life..

but never never never ignore any letter or just never ignore anything that comes from the Tax department.. you must comply at all cost no matter you think its unfair.. even Al Capone is no match to them..

You are a law abiding, tax paying person, and you know you are a good honest person even in paying taxes.. you have a bookkeeper that do the filing every month, so you think you can just ignore them?.. no way...BIR has the capacity to destroy/ mess your life/ business without you knowing it.. it is a very hard lesson that i learned the hard way now

now i am all alone in the house, very lonely, no lovelife at all..saturday nigth, working now of the documents that i need to submit to BIR, working also for the documents needed in the customs release of our small shipments of soldering tools,

I am an honest poor man, i can look in the mirror proudly that i am an honest working small man, i dont deserve this problem. if i will be working in the goverment, i can say i will be not corrupt, because i dont know.. Money is not my weakness, Sexy woman is my weakness..hhahaha,

now, very broke now, very scared of this BIR thing, very lonely now, zero lovelife.. this is the lowest point in my life i think.. but life must go on, i cannot just kill myself & die, i have young daughters to think on, i have employees to think on, i should stop this drama, I should stop this self-pity & work on now.. i should face this problem & work to solve this problem. i should muster all energy & self-motivations to close this issue, so i can have more time in that elusive goals in life- to find a wife and buy a small farm! hahaha

so accept that Life is unfair! next time, i will never ever again ignore some people/entity as powerful as BIR then i should study again some basic bookkeeping / accounting so at least i have more tools/ knowledge in this area. as i realized, business is not only sales & operations, it also involves dealing with powerful goverment entities that have the capacity to wreck havoc in your business and life..

This issue should be settled this year, no matter how it hurts.. i should settle this issue, no matter how unfair, then move on and move forward, learn lessons from this huge mistake & be a better small distributor to serve our clients better , be a better person..

Soldering Soldering #selfmotivation