National Internal Revenue Code (NIRC)
Section 281. Prescription for Violations of any Provision of this Code. - All violations of any provision of this Code shall prescribe after Five (5) years.
Prescription shall begin to run from the day of the commission of the violation of the law, and if the same be not known at the time, from the discovery thereof and the institution of judicial proceedings for its investigation and punishment.
The prescription shall be interrupted when proceedings are instituted against the guilty persons and shall begin to run again if the proceedings are dismissed for reasons not constituting jeopardy.
The term of prescription shall not run when the offender is absent from the Philippines.