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<h3>Says he had no hand in nor knowledge of alleged offenses</h3>MANILA - Actor Richard Gutierrez urged the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday to junk the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s (BIR) falsification of public documents and perjury complaint against him.The case stems from his alleged falsification of evidence and submission of perjured affidavits in his tax evasion <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/08/17/17/bir-charges-richard-gutierrez-for-submitting-fake-docs-in-tax-case">case</a>.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">LOOK: Richard Gutierrez at DOJ for falsification of public documents and perjury case hearing <a href="https://t.co/W3k5slRgv6">pic.twitter.com/W3k5slRgv6</a>— Ina Reformina (@InaReformina) <a href="https://twitter.com/InaReformina/status/915848239630368768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 5, 2017</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div>Accompanied by his mother, Annabelle Rama, Gutierrez personally subscribed to his eight-page counter-affidavit at the DOJ. wherein he argued that a certified public accountant filed and paid his company, R Gutz Production, Incorporated’s taxes for subject period 2012.In its tax complaint against Gutierrez, the BIR placed Gutierrez’s income tax liability at P27.45 million, and his VAT liabilities at P11.12 million, or a total of P38.57 million in tax delinquencies.It charged Gutierrez with the following: - one count of knowingly using/submitting fake or falsified annual income tax return (ITR) for taxable year 2012; - six counts of knowingly using/submitting fake or falsified quarterly value-added tax (VAT) returns for the 2nd, 3rd, 4th quarters of 2012; - two counts of knowingly using/submitting perjured affidavits during the preliminary investigation of his tax case; and, - four counts of attempting to make it appear he or another filed his annual ITR and quarterly VAT returns.“As far as I know is that R Gutz had an accountant at that time in the person of Teresita Dabu-Lapid who filed and paid the tax for the corporation. This is evidenced by the Report of Independent Auditor, Certificate of Taxpayer Compliance and Financial Statements she made for R Gutz attached to the 2012 annual income tax returns and likewise submitted to the complainant (BIR).“I am ready to present before this honorable office the original copies of the annual income tax return as well as the foregoing documents from the accountant which bears the stamp of the complainant and with seal of the accountant in 2013 during the preliminary investigation of this case,” Gutierrez’s counter-affidavit read.Gutierrez submitted the subject documents to the DOJ on July 18, 2017, with official receipt stamps from the BIR Revenue District Office No. 42-San Juan City. However, the receiving officer appearing in the stamps, Renato Agana, denied receipt of the returns.“There is a stamp ‘received&#x27; in the documents; we traced that there’s a name there, the person who allegedly received it (returns) has denied receiving that. It’s not his signature there, and the stamp that he used isn’t the stamp that is used in that office… all that point that these documents submitted are fake,” said BIR Assistant Commissioner James Roldan, in an interview with reporters during the filing of the complaint on August 17.The BIR alleged “Gutierrez used fake and falsified tax returns to secure the dismissal of the tax evasion case against R Gutz Production Corporation,” and resorted to the “scheme” in order to evade payment of the required taxes.In his counter-affidavit on the falsification and perjury case, Gutierrez argued that he had no hand nor knowledge about the alleged falsification of the BIR stamp, even as he said it was possible that a bureau officer other than Agana may have signed the document.“Complainant should consider the possibility of the fact that it was not the signature of RO Agana which was on the subject return because maybe during that time he was not but a different staff of the RDO who received it. It is of public knowledge that during [the] April 15 filing of the annual income tax, BIR is flooded by taxpayers and it is impossible that it was just RO Agana who examined and received all the tax returns.“That in the very remote instance that those returns are falsified, there is no probability that I am the one who is the author of the alleged forged signature and fake stamp because I was not the one who prepared and filed them,” Gutierrez’s counter-affidavit read.The DOJ has set the next hearing on the case on October 18.

MANILA - Actor Richard Gutierrez urged the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday to junk the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s (BIR) falsification of public documents and perjury complaint against him.

MANILA - Actor Richard Gutierrez urged the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday to junk the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s (BIR) falsification of public documents and perjury complaint against him.