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Benefits of Heir’s Bonds

Judicial Bond Explained

A judicial bond is a class of surety bonds that is required by the Courts and/or administrative bodies clothed with quasi-judicial powers in connection with the judicial proceedings before them. Most of these are continuing in nature as they cannot be canceled unless the Courts declare otherwise.

Heir’s Bonds

An heir’s bond guarantees the protection of any heir or person who has been deprived of his lawful participation in the estate and/or any creditor who has a claim against the estate which has not been paid. It is posted by the known heirs who seek to distribute the registrable properties under their respective names. 

This bond also has several key functions and liabilities. The first is to allow the transfer of registrable properties to the transferee while the second is to answer for the share of the disenfranchised heir. 

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To know more about surety bonds and their basic definitions, check out our previous article on surety bonds as we provided an overview for them. We’ll also be discussing the topic of customs bonds in the near future! But if you would like to know even more, feel free to contact us at our various social media platforms, website, email, and landline. 

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Benefits of Customs Bonds

Definition of Customs Bond

As the name implies, a customs bond is a bond issued in favor of the Bureau of Customs in accordance with the Revised Tariff and Customs Code of the Philippines or orders issued by the Commissioner of Customs. 

Purpose of Customs Bond

Customs bond is required principally to protect government revenue, insure the collection of customs duties, internal revenue taxes, and other charges due on imported articles, and compliance with the rules, regulations, and orders promulgated by the Commissioner of Customs in connection with the importation and warehousing of such articles, and the collection of duties, taxes and other charges due thereon.

Classifications of Customs Bond

a) Ordinary or Single Shipment Bond

This class of customs bond is required to cover a single transaction or articles imported under one shipment only.

Example: Ordinary Re-Export bond which covers only one shipment of imported articles.

b) General Bond

This class of customs bond is required to cover numerous transactions or articles imported under several shipments made within a certain period of time, usually one calendar year. This is specifically authorized by the Tariff and Customs Code, to wit:

Section 3504. “General Bonds, When Required – In cases where bonds are required to be given under the provisions of the Customs and Tariff Laws, the Collector, instead of requiring separate special bonds where the transactions of a particular party are numerous, may accept general bond extending over such periods and covering such transactions of the party in the questions as shall be satisfactory to said Collector.”

c) Chargeable Bond

This form of general bond covers numerous importations or transactions or entries within a certain period, except that the liquidation of any entry is chargeable against the bond and the canceled portion of the bond is re-usable by the importer in his subsequent before expiration of the bond.

Example: General Bond for Bonded Manufacturing Warehouse