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Notice & authority review
Identify the document, stated taxpayer, covered period, scope, and material authority or procedural points apparent from the materials provided.
Tax & BIR
A notice received.
A response considered.
Start with the document, the deadline and the records.
Overview
BIR Notice Review & Response Plan
Received a BIR notice? Understand it before your company responds.
A structured legal review of the document, applicable deadlines, requested records, immediate issues, and next steps before full audit defense or protest work begins.
Fixed professional fee
₱30,000
This is a limited-scope legal engagement. Conflict clearance and written engagement confirmation are required before representation begins.
The document type and procedural stage matter.
What did you receive?
The document type and procedural stage matter.
“BIR notice” is a useful business term, but the documents do not perform the same legal function. An eLA or LOA, Mission Order, and Tax Verification Notice can involve different authority and scope questions. A Notice of Discrepancy, PAN, FLD/FAN, or FDDA may place the matter at a different stage and may require a different or additional substantive response.
Audit or verification authority
eLA/LOA, Mission Order, and Tax Verification Notice. The review considers the stated authority, scope, covered periods, requests, and process.
Findings, assessment, or dispute stage
Notice of Discrepancy, PAN, FLD/FAN, and FDDA. These can call for immediate deadline and engagement assessment rather than a routine review alone.
Why early review matters
Why early review matters
Early legal review helps management cooperate appropriately while controlling the legal and documentary process deliberately. Before responding or producing records, management should understand who issued the document, what it appears to cover, what dates matter, which records to preserve, and what needs legal or accounting clarification.
Understand the document
Identify the authority, stated taxpayer, covered periods, requests, receipt details, and apparent procedural stage.
Organize the record
Create a controlled inventory of available and missing records before documents are produced or explanations are made.
Coordinate management action
Assign responsible business functions, preserve relevant material, and identify points that need legal or accounting clarification.
A written legal review and management action plan, not merely an oral consultation.
What the client receives
A written legal review and management action plan, not merely an oral consultation.
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Deadline map
Separate material response dates from the notice, administrative dates, conference dates, and deadlines that require confirmation under the actual procedural stage.
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Scope analysis
Explain what tax type, period, transaction, books, records, or issue the document appears to cover.
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Document inventory
Organize requests, identify unclear or missing items, and distinguish records already available from records management still needs to locate.
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Initial issues map
Identify early legal and procedural questions apparent from the notice and initial records. This is not a complete tax exposure computation.
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Document-production protocol
Recommend an orderly process to identify, review, preserve, log, and produce responsive records appropriately.
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Clarification list
Identify what management, finance, accounting, or other personnel should confirm before a substantive response is made.
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Management action plan
Set out immediate actions, responsible functions, records to preserve, escalation points, and the recommended next legal stage, if any.
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Lawyer conference
One conference with management to discuss the written review and immediate next steps.
What this service does not include
What this service does not include
This is not full audit defense. It answers the initial management question: what did we receive, what does it require, what should be preserved or prepared, and what should happen next?
- Full BIR audit representation or repeated BIR conferences
- Preparation or filing of substantive PAN, FAN/FLD, reconsideration, reinvestigation, collection-defense, or CTA pleadings
- Tax-liability, accounting, bookkeeping, tax-return, or reconstruction work
- Extensive forensic review, broad witness interviews, affidavits, litigation, or government appearances
- More than one taxpayer, multiple principal notices, materially separate taxable-period analyses, or substantially more than approximately 50 pages of initial supporting material
Excluded work may be separately evaluated, scoped, and quoted where necessary.
A defined process for an initial BIR notice review
A defined process for an initial BIR notice review
Step 1
Request conflict check
Step 2
Scope confirmation
Step 3
Engagement and payment
Step 4
Secure document submission and legal review
Step 5
Written plan and lawyer conference
If the matter requires further representation
If the matter requires further representation
A review may identify a need for separate BIR Audit Defense, PAN/FAN protest work, collection defense, or Court of Tax Appeals proceedings. Further work is not included in the ₱30,000 service and is separately evaluated, scoped, quoted, and accepted. Not every matter progresses through each stage.
Explore Tax & BIR legal servicesFrequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions
What BIR documents can we submit for initial screening?
The service may be suitable for an eLA or LOA, Mission Order, Tax Verification Notice, Notice of Discrepancy, or other BIR audit or verification correspondence. PAN, FLD/FAN, and FDDA matters are screened carefully because a separate substantive response engagement may be needed.
Does the ₱30,000 fee include BIR representation?
No. It is a limited review, written action plan, and one lawyer conference. Further representation is separately evaluated, scoped, quoted, and accepted in writing.
Does it include a PAN or FAN protest?
No. The document may be reviewed within the limited engagement, but substantive protest preparation and filing are separate work.
Can our accountant join the conference?
Yes, where management considers it useful. The initial review may identify information that finance or accounting personnel should clarify.
What if the deadline is very close?
State the date received and any deadline shown in the document when requesting a conflict check. NLF will first determine fit, conflicts, and whether the limited service is appropriate.
Does submitting the form make NLF our lawyer?
No. An inquiry does not create an attorney-client relationship. Conflict clearance and written engagement confirmation are required before representation begins.
Received a BIR notice?
Received a BIR notice?
Request a conflict check and confirm whether the matter fits the BIR Notice Review & Response Plan. Please do not send full BIR records through the initial form.
Request Conflict CheckSubmitting an inquiry does not create an attorney-client relationship. Engagement is subject to conflict checking and written acceptance.
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