PEZA and the BPO campus

How it works

PEZA incentives attach to qualifying enterprises you control. A dedicated WFH hire is usually outside that story. Alumni of park floors still show up on slates. Do not promise PEZA tax magic on a Desk invoice. For a U.S. company hiring one Filipino teammate, write this into the brief, the employment contract, and the peso payroll file before the start date. Slack habits do not override the Labor Code, BIR, or NPC. If the local employer of record holds the paper, they run the statutory step; you still owe a clean operating definition so the seat does not fail in week three. Put a number on the example when you budget loaded cost, because a nameless allowance always returns as a December surprise or a missed SLA.

Example: entity wants PEZA: site, registration, headcount plan. One EA on EOR: no PEZA, no campus badge, still a good hire.

How it differs

IT park geography is the map of those campuses. Captive and GCC often live there. Philippine entity is the prerequisite.

Common errors

Advertising ‘PEZA talent’ as a visa.

In practice

Treat PEZA and the BPO campus as a week-one operating object. Ask for a desk shot, a power plan, and a second network path. Geography is not personality. Write an owner - founder, local employer, or worker - and a date you will look at it again: first cutoff, first holiday, or first miss. If nobody can show a contract clause, a payslip line, a calendar block, or a checklist box, you do not have peza and the bpo campus yet. You have a conversation. Convert the conversation before the person starts, while changing the deal still costs a paragraph rather than a resignation. Re-read the worked example above against the actual hire in front of you. If the numbers in that example cannot be swapped for this seat’s pesos, hours, and start date, the brief is still unfinished.