REVENUE MEMORANDUM ORDER NO. 5-2017 issued on February 17, 2017
prescribes the functional guidelines relative to the implementation of the Taxpayer
Registration System (TRS) under the Electronic Tax Information Systems-1 (eTIS-1).
The TRS eTIS-1 enables authorized users to:
a. Register Taxpayer – Issue Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) for individual;
register individual and non-individual taxpayers; register a new branch up to
99999; and register a facility that does not have business activities with assigned
“F” prefix code
b. Manage Taxpayer – Update/modify the registration information; find/inquire/
search for a taxpayer; suspend one or more tax types or form types; re-activate
a suspended tax type or form type; de-register tax types and form types or deregister the taxpayer; re-register de-registered tax and form types; transfer a
taxpayer to another Revenue District Office (RDO) or Large Taxpayer District
Office; modify accounting details for non-individual taxpayer; and tag/untag
inactive/blacklisted taxpayers
c. On-line Approval – Show all transactions pending approval, rejection, release or
re-assign task. Approval of the following transactions can be made in the
system: 1. Suspension; 2. Re-activation; 3. De-registration or re-registration of
tax types and form types of a taxpayer; 4. De-registration of taxpayer; and 5.
Transfer of taxpayer
d. Correspondence and Reports Generation – Generate Authority to Print;
Certificate of Registration (COR); Certificate of Registration for Facility; Tax
Clearance; and reports specified in the Order
The TRS under eTIS-1 is currently being implemented in the following pilot sites:
offices under Large Taxpayers Service (i.e. Large Taxpayer Assistance Division, Excise
Large Taxpayer Regulatory Division, Large Taxpayer Division (LTD)-Makati, LTD-Cebu)
and RDOs under Revenue Region No. 8 – Makati.
Enhanced Registration Forms prescribed under Revenue Memorandum Circular
No. 9-2015 shall be used in the eTIS-1 pilot sites.
Previously issued CORs, TIN Cards and other correspondences with no updates
in the registration information shall remain valid.
The guidelines and procedures in performing the TRS eTIS-1 functionalities are
specified in the Order.