14 November 2026 · Bureau of Internal Revenue

BIR moves NCR deadlines to 19 November for the ASEAN Summit

Returns and tax payments with statutory due dates on 16, 17 or 18 November 2026 now fall on 19 November 2026, but only for taxpayers registered in a listed set of National Capital Region revenue district offices.

The Bureau of Internal Revenue moved to 19 November 2026 the deadline for filing returns and paying taxes with statutory due dates falling on 16, 17 or 18 November 2026, for taxpayers registered in a defined list of National Capital Region offices. The Tax Advisory is dated 10 November 2026 and signed by Commissioner Charlito Martin R. Mendoza.

What the advisory does

It covers returns and payments with a statutory due date inside that three day window, and only inside the jurisdiction of the offices named in the annex. The new date is single: 19 November 2026, one day after the window closes. The advisory contains no form by form schedule, so the shift is defined by date and by office, not by the return type.

The cause is Proclamation No. 1447 dated 17 September 2026, which declared 16 to 18 November 2026 Special (Non-Working) Days in the NCR in connection with the 49th ASEAN Summit and Related Summits. Because those three days are non-working days, a statutory date falling inside the window could not stand.

Who is covered

Coverage follows the Revenue District Office where the taxpayer is registered. It does not follow the address of the accounting team and it does not follow the filing channel. The annex lists the offices by number, running from RDO 24 Valenzuela City and RDO 26 Malabon and Navotas through RDO 53A Las Piñas, and adds four Large Taxpayer units. The districts named include:

• RDO 27 Caloocan City, 28 Novaliches, 29 Tondo-San Nicolas, 30 Binondo, 31 Sta. Cruz
• RDO 33 Intramuros, 34 Paco-Pandacan-Sta. Ana-San Andres, 41 Mandaluyong, 42 San Juan
• RDO 38 North Quezon City, 39 South Quezon City, 40 Cubao, 48 West Makati, 49 North Makati
• RDO 50 South Makati, 51 Pasay City, 52, 53A Las Piñas, 54B Muntinlupa
• Large Taxpayer units: 116 and 126 Regular LT Audit Divisions, 121 and 124 LT Excise Divisions

Some entries carry a number without a legible district name in the copy consulted, among them RDOs 32, 43, 44 and 45. Read the annex against the RDO number on your own certificate rather than against this list.

A taxpayer registered in a provincial office keeps the original date, even if the finance staff sits in Makati. A branch that files under a covered NCR office is covered, because the extension is written by office of registration.

The earlier extension has already closed

The same week carried a second change. Revenue Memorandum Circular No. 118-2026, also dated 10 November 2026, extended to 13 November 2026 the returns and payments originally due 10 to 12 November, after the eBIRForms Offline Package became unavailable for system maintenance. It covered Form 1601-C, 0619-E and 0619-F for non-eFPS filers, Forms 1600-VT and 1600-PT together with the monthly alphalist of payees, Forms 1606, 0620, 2200-M and 2200-C, and the one time payment forms 1800, 1801, 1706, 1707 and 1707A.

The circular removed penalties, surcharges and interest only where the return was filed and the tax paid or remitted on or before 13 November 2026. That date has passed. It is a closed window, not a live one, and filings made after it fall back under the ordinary rules.

What to check before Monday

Read the RDO number printed on the Certificate of Registration, then read the annex in the advisory. If the office is listed, 19 November 2026 is the last day of that week and it is a single day for everything that fell in the window. If it is not listed, no date moved and the statutory deadline stands as printed on the return.

Two points tend to be missed. The extension applies to payment as well as filing, so a return filed on 19 November with the tax paid in December is not covered by the advisory's relief. And it says nothing about the next statutory dates after 19 November, which keep their ordinary schedule.

The advisory closes by directing taxpayers to file and pay within the adjusted deadline to avoid applicable penalties. For an office in the capital region, that sentence is the whole relief: one day, one list, no further grace.