SECTION 1.       Section 203 of Regulations No. 26, as amended by Regulations No. 77 and Rev. Reg. No. 3-75, is hereby further amended to read as follows:

"SECTION 203.        Manner of payment of documentary stamp tax. - The payment of the documentary stamp tax imposed in Title VII of the National Internal Revenue Code, AS AMENDED, shall be made by the purchase and affixture of documentary stamps of the proper value to the document or instrument sought to be taxed or to any other paper which the law indicates as the proper recipient of the stamp: Provided, That in cases of warehouse receipts, certificates of stocks, passage tickets, and other documents having stubs or duplicates kept by the persons issuing them, the documentary stamps shall be adhered to the stubs or to the duplicates thereof; PROVIDED, FURTHER, THAT IN MERITORIOUS CASES INVOLVING ISSUANCE OF NUMEROUS CERTIFICATES OF STOCK AT ONE TIME, THE COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE MAY, IN HIS DISCRETION, AUTHORIZE ADHERENCE OF STAMPS TO THE STOCK CERTIFICATE REGISTER; THAT WITH RESPECT TO CHECKS DRAWN AGAINST CURRENT ACCOUNT, MANAGER'S/CASHIER'S/TREASURER'S CHECKS OR INSURANCE POLICIES, THE DOCUMENTARY STAMPS SHALL BE ADHERED TO THE REQUISITION/PURCHASE SLIP, REGISTER COPY OR PREMIUM REGISTER: THAT with respect to Bank's THE DOCUMENTARY STAMPS MAY BE AFFIXED IN THE PROOF SHEETS OF EACH DEPARTMENT: and that a note properly initialed by a responsible person on the face of such documents shall be made as follows: "Documentary stamps to the value of P________ have been affixed to the stub, [or to] the duplicate, THE REQUISITION/PURCHASE SLIP, THE REGISTER COPY, STOCK CERTIFICATE REGISTER, PREMIUM REGISTER, or Proof Sheet, as the case may be: "Provided, further, That where the use of the Pitney-Bowes Postage Meter and Machine, or the like for the manufacture and printing of documentary stamps on documents or instruments subject to tax is permitted by the COMMISSIONER of Internal Revenue, the payment of the tax due shall be accomplished by the filing of proper requisition for stamps intended to be manufactured and printed with the COMMISSIONER of Internal Revenue and by the payment of the value of the stamps so requisitioned."

SECTION 2.       These Regulations shall take effect immediately.

Adopted: 12 Aug. 1988

(SGD.) VICENTE R. JAYME
Secretary of Finance