Starting your practice is quite overwhelming, especially if you don’t have another doctor in the family. Sharing of information with colleagues can be one good source of information and also these vital pointers below: The 5 Ps in Choosing the Hospital Stocks to Buy in Starting Private Practice 1. Purpose Always begin with an…
About: Pinky De Leon-Intal, MD, RFC
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Financial Health 101 Talks and Pinky Promise Initiative
It has been a while since I posted my last entry in this blog. To all my followers, sorry for making you all wait. Since I launched “Green Book for Doctors” last June 12, 2018, I have been very busy. I have had 3 major talks since then and I would like to share with…
4 Rotten Truths Beneath #DoctorShaming in the Philippines (and One Possible Solution to STOP this)
Being a doctor is not just a profession, it’s almost the entire doctor’s life. Recently, doctors are under fire when non-doctors shame them on social media because of pictures of them sleeping while on duty, holding a celphone while on duty and the likes. When I dissected this issue, I uncovered 4 Rotten Truths that…
Green Book For Doctors – A Physician’s Survival Guide to Personal Finance – Coming Soon
Green Book For Doctors – A Physician’s Survival Guide to Personal Finance Mathematics and any subject that deals with numbers have been my favourite subjects since I was young until college. After finishing Medicine, that did not stop me from pursuing my first love, I enrolled in finance courses and later on finished and became…
How To File The First Quarterly Income Tax Return (TRAIN Edition)
BIR just recently announced in its website that the much awaited quarter income tax return form 1701Q is now available. This is the process for manual filing.What you need to do: Download the form. (download here) Print 3 copies, then fill-up manually. Affix signature. If with payment, file and pay in Accredited Agent Banks. If…
You have to do this NOW to Decrease Withholding Tax to 5% Deadline on April 6, 2018
The latest rule, RR No. 11-2018 on WithholdingTax (WHT) was published by Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) in the mid of March 2018. The change of rule is regarding Withholding Tax (WHT) rates for professional fees, talent fees, commissions paid to individual payee. This includes doctor’s fee for services done. The…
11 Reasons Why God allow Financial Problems in our Lives
As I deepened my faith in Jesus, I’m awed as I realized how powerful God really is. When I try to marvel how great his power is, I sometimes imagine Him as “Superman times 1000.” For that, I know for a fact that when He was scourged and nailed on the cross, its his choice…
8% OPTIONAL FLAT RATE vs. GRADUATED TAX RATES, Which is better for Self-Employed Doctors?
8% OPTIONAL FLAT RATE vs. GRADUATED RATES, WHICH IS BETTER FOR Self-Employed Doctors? This is the most common question I get from doctors nowadays, even from non-doctor friends. Section 109 of the Tax Code, as amended by Section 34 of RA 10963, the new option of the TRAIN for self-employed taxpayer is the availment of…
