You deserve an accountant who actually picks up.
Registration, BIR filings, books and payroll for Filipino freelancers, self-employed professionals and registered businesses. Handling compliance since 2016 — and telling you, in plain terms, what we filed and why.
Everything your business needs, from Day 1 to done.
Your setup should match your numbers. Most firms just file what's put in front of them. We watch whether your structure still fits, and tell you when it doesn't.
Get registered
Registered properly the first time, in the right order, without the runaround.
- BIR registration for freelancers and self-employed professionals
- DTI registration for sole proprietors
- SEC registration for OPCs, corporations and partnerships
- Mayor's permit and barangay clearance
- SSS, PhilHealth and Pag-IBIG employer enrolment, so you can remit for employees
- Bank account setup guidance
Stay compliant
Every deadline tracked, every return filed. You never have to remember.
- Tax filing: monthly, quarterly and annual BIR returns
- Income tax returns and financial statements
- SEC annual filings: your yearly company information return (GIS) and audited financial statements
- SSS, PhilHealth and Pag-IBIG remittances
- Bookkeeping, payroll and your general ledger — the master record of every transaction
Change, grow or close
When your structure stops fitting your numbers, we'll tell you, then handle the change.
- Restructuring: professional or sole proprietor to OPC or corporation
- Tax planning and structuring advice
- Change of address, ownership or registered details
- Business name amendment
- BIR closure — formally ending your registration so filings stop
- SEC dissolution, and cancelling your registrations with the LGU and other agencies
If your income is simple and you’re comfortable filing it yourself, a filing tool may be all you need. If you’d rather someone noticed when something was wrong, that’s us.
Getting started takes three steps.
Tell us about your business
Fill in a short form: your business type, what you need, and how to reach you. Four questions, about a minute.
We handle the compliance
You’re assigned four account managers by function: sales, expenses, payroll and contributions, and one-off work like permits and registration changes. They sit in one Viber group with you, so nobody gets bounced around and nobody explains their situation twice.
You get on with the actual work
No more chasing deadlines or decoding BIR notices. You run the business; we run the compliance.
Why our clients stay.
Built for the person who signs the return.
Thumbtax was founded in 2016 by Tim Esguerra, a graduate of the UP College of Business Administration, after seeing the same pattern over and over: solo professionals and registered businesses getting handed a filing and then left alone with the hard part.
Compliance here is genuinely complicated. BIR, SEC, SSS, PhilHealth, Pag-IBIG, the LGU. Each has its own forms, deadlines and quirks. Most people aren't confused because they're careless. They're confused because nobody explained it in plain language.
So you don't get one person spread thin. Once you're onboarded, your account is handled by specialists: sales, expenses, payroll and contributions, and the one-off work like permits, annual SEC filings and registration changes. They sit in one Viber group with you, so nobody gets bounced around and nobody has to explain their situation twice.
That's the whole idea behind Thumbtax. Do the work properly, explain it in language you can actually use, and answer when someone writes. Ten years on, more than a hundred professionals and businesses trust us with their books.
Philippine compliance, in plain English.
No jargon, no assumed knowledge. Just what you actually need to know.
BIR registration for beginners: what you need, and in what order
The full sequence from DTI or SEC through to your Certificate of Registration, and the mistakes that cost people months.
Behind on BIR filings? Each year can be settled for ₱5,000, until December 31
A one-time BIR programme clears years of penalties for a flat fee. Who qualifies, how to check your bracket, and the deadline that ends it.
Tell us about your business.
Whether you're just registering or you're behind on two years of filings, start here. No commitment, no sales pitch.
What it costs
Three things move the number:
- What you're registered as
- How much activity runs through your books
- Whether you have employees
Tell us those and you'll have a figure back within 24 hours.
Send an inquiry
Four quick questions. Tim reads every one himself and replies within 24 hours.
Or book a 15-minute call
Prefer to talk it through first? Pick a time that works for you.
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You’ll have a reply within 24 hours. If it's urgent, email hello@thumbtax.com.ph directly.