ULOG: A Taxpayer's Journey to Have her Name Changed

I went to the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) at the start of the week to have my name changed. It is quite a trouble for married women to have their name changed. Yeah, I envy men on that matter.

Plus, I needed to have new receipts anyway. So I told myself, the trouble is all fine since I am hitting two birds with one stone. Going to BIR one time for two purposes - change of name and printing of new receipts.

Or I thought so...

Monday morning.

This greeted me.

With me were the requirements I was first told I needed so I headed to the office and feeling positive that I will be done in no time.

However, when my number was called, the officer, Sir Rolly, said I needed more requirements. I asked him to write it down since my memory usually plays trick on me.

So, I went back home and gathered the requirements needed.

Tuesday morning.

With me were the requirements I was told to bring. I was glad to see there were only a few people in the office compared to Monday morning and had my number called before I was able to actually sit down. Yey! That was fast.

On the table, I happily submitted the requirements thinking that I will be finished in no time. Yeah, in "no time" as it took me hours to wait for my requirements to be "verified".

Trouble was, the office was offline. I am not sure what that really means but for us clients, it simply meant long hours waiting.

Finally, I was called. But I still have to reserve that happy "mission-accomplished" face since they asked more papers from me.

Wednesday morning.

Getting tired on going to and fro for all the additional requirements.

With me were MOOORE papers I was told yesterday to bring. I was glad that the documents were "ok"-ied already.

But on one certain paper, they needed to see the receipt from way back 2014. It turned out that their system wasn't able to "capture" my payment details on the year 2014 so they were asking me to show that particular receipt from waaayyy baaaccckkk 2014! Otherwise, I have to pay a hefty amount of more than a thousand pesos.

Ugh, whatever happened to the computerization and all those duplicate or triplicate copies.

I was silently praying to God to give me patience as I felt it was slowly slipping away from me.

Gotta dig files and show them in their face. I just hope floodwaters or the voracious termites spared the needed documents. Otherwise, according to them, I have to pay the "penalty"

....to be continued

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