Requirements for exemption from travel tax


Filipino Overseas Contract Workers
  • Valid passport
  • Employment certificate
  • Valid Overseas Employment Certificate (OEC) from POEA if hired through this agency.  The OEC serves as the travel tax exemption certificate; workers do not need to go to PTA for exemption.
  • For those directly hired abroad, a certificate of work or employment issued by the employer and noted by the Philippine Embassy / Consulate ot he Employment Contract authenticated by the Philippine Embassy / Consulate.

Filipino Permanent Residents Abroad
  • Copies of ID pages of passport and stamp of last arrival in the Philippines
  • Proof of permanent residence in foreign country which may, among others, be the official document issued by the foreign government concerned showing the grant of permanent resident status to the Filipino citizen
  • For those between 18 to 60 years old and are employed, Philippine Income Tax Return (ITR) for the previous year
    The ITR may either be

    - An Information Return (BIR Form 1701C or 1703) for those who do not derive         income in the Philippines
    - The appropriate ITR form prescribed by the BIR for those who derived income         in the Philippines

Infants
  • Photocopy of passport
  • Certified true copy of birth certificate


Philippine Foreign Service personnel assigned abroad and their dependents 
  • Certification from the Department of Foreign Affairs to this effect 


Philippine government (excluding government-owned and controlled corporations) employees on official travel 
  • Certified true copy of travel authority or travel order from Secretary concerned to this effect (Malacanang approval of travel needed for two or more employees and for those with rank of Asst. Secretary and above) 


Grantees of foreign government-funded trips 
  • Proof that travel is provided/funded by a foreign government. 


Students with approved scholarships by appropriate government agency 
  • Certification from concerned Philippine government agency 

Note: "Student" is defined as a person attending formal classes in an educational institution for the purpose of taking up a course leading to a diploma the duration of which is not less than one year. 


Personnel of Philippine offices of multinational companies not engaged in business in the Philippines and their dependents.
  • Certification from the Board of Investments


Those authorized by the President of the Republic of the Philippines 
  • Written authorization from the Office of the President which explicitly entitles the passenger to an exemption