CPALE Taxation (TAX): 2022 Syllabus Breakdown & Free Practice Quizzes

TAX — Taxation is one of the six core subjects of the Philippine CPA Licensure Examination (CPALE). Mastering TAX requires solid recall and problem-solving speed across principles of taxation, individual and corporate income tax, estate and donor's taxes, Value-Added Tax (VAT) and percentage taxes, tax remedies, and PEZA/CREATE incentives.

You can inspect the complete TAX syllabus tree on Aefing, take the free interactive quizzes below without an account, and create a free account to track your retention up to exam day.

Try the Free TAX Practice Quizzes

Test yourself right now on live questions linked to the official TAX syllabus:

• Take the 15-Item TAX Diagnostic Quiz — Check your baseline across Taxation with immediate explanations.
• Take the TAX Active Retrieval & Mastery Quiz — Practice enumeration, fill-in-the-blanks, contrastive matching, procedural ordering, and faded worked examples.

After you finish a shared quiz, you can save the questions you missed into your own account so Aefing brings them back the next morning and schedules them until they stick.

Official CPALE 2022 Syllabus Sections for TAX

Here are the major syllabus sections under TAX (Taxation) in the 2022 BOA syllabus:

• TAX.1 Principles of Taxation (Weight: 8)
• TAX.2 Tax Remedies (Weight: 8)
• TAX.3 Income Taxation (Weight: 14)
• TAX.4 Transfer Taxes (Weight: 12)
• TAX.5 Business Taxes (Weight: 12)
• TAX.6 Documentary Stamp Tax (Weight: 2)
• TAX.7 Excise Tax (Weight: 2)
• TAX.8 Taxation Under the Local Government Code (Local Government Taxation and Real Property Taxation under the Local Government Code) (Weight: 4)
• TAX.9 Preferential Taxation (Weight: 8)

Want to see every nested subtopic and item weight? Open the full interactive CPALE 2022 syllabus.

How to Study TAX So It Sticks Until Board Exam Day

1. Follow the official CPALE syllabus on Aefing: On the CPALE syllabus page, click Follow this syllabus or Start my topics from it to link your study topics directly to TAX and its sub-parts.
2. Mix computation with active retrieval: Instead of only recognizing multiple-choice options, test yourself with numeric entries, multi-step faded worked examples, and contrastive matching between closely related standards or rules.
3. Let yesterday's misses lead Today: Open Today each morning to clear the questions you missed yesterday before starting new syllabus parts.
4. Check your On Your Date forecast: Open Progress to see how your measured 21-day retention compares against the 75% general average and 65% subject floor.

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