# Get your BIR Registration Seal Badge

> The QR seal that proves you are registered without publishing your TIN and home address to the internet. Free, and most people posting their whole COR do not know it exists.

Source: https://taxkaya.com/processes/registration-seal-badge
Last checked: 2026-08-06

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## Say this at the counter

- **Checklist of Documentary Requirements** F1105
- **Quality form number** QF11-11.2025.00
- **Revision** Revised July 2025
- **Citizen's Charter classification** Simple
- **RA 11032 legal maximum** 3 working days, extendable once

## What they may ask you for

- **Nothing, if your Certificate of Registration already carries a QR code** The badge is cropped out of the COR you already hold. Check the document before starting anything.
- **BIR Form 1905, two originals, only if you are updating at the counter** ORUS does the same update without the form and without the queue.
- **₱30 for loose Documentary Stamp Tax** The badge itself is free. The DST is charged on the reissued Certificate of Registration, not on the badge.

## Do not leave without

- A Certificate of Registration bearing a QR code, downloaded or printed
- The badge image cropped out of it, saved somewhere you can reach when you rebuild the site
- A scan of your own QR, tested once, landing on verify.bir.gov.ph

## Pick your route

### Through ORUS

- **Best for** anyone whose COR has no QR code yet. It is the same update either way, and this one does not cost a morning.
- **Official processing time** 3 working days
- **Official fee** ₱30 loose DST

1. Open the Certificate of Registration you already have and look for a QR code If it is there, stop. The badge is that block of the document and nothing below applies — crop it and post it.
2. Sign in at orus.bir.gov.ph and choose to update registration information Select Head Office unless the online selling happens under a registered branch.
3. Pick what you are updating, then review the summary If nothing has genuinely changed, this is a reissue rather than a change. Say so at the counter if ORUS refuses to proceed without an edit.
4. Pay the ₱30 loose Documentary Stamp Tax
5. Generate the Certificate of Registration from your profile page The reissued document carries the QR code, and the badge is part of it.
6. Crop out the badge alone and post it Your website, and every social or marketplace profile you sell through. Not the whole COR.

Caveat: ORUS is the part most likely to go wrong rather than the BIR side. If a button does not appear, the fixes are in the troubleshooting guide before you give up and queue.

### At your RDO

- **Best for** anyone ORUS has already defeated, or who needs the update recorded the same day.
- **Official processing time** 3 working days
- **Official fee** ₱30 loose DST

1. Bring BIR Form 1905, two originals, to the RDO holding your registration
2. Ask for a reissued Certificate of Registration bearing the QR code Naming the QR code matters. A reissue without one leaves you exactly where you started.
3. Pay the ₱30 loose Documentary Stamp Tax
4. Collect the reissued COR and crop the badge from it

## What bites beginners

- It covers far more people than the phrase 'online seller' suggests. RMC 38-2026 names freelancers, professionals, vloggers, influencers and anyone earning through a digital platform. Billing a foreign client through your own website puts you inside it.
- Post the badge, not the Certificate of Registration. Uploading the whole COR is what the badge exists to stop: it publishes your TIN and your registered address on a page anyone can read.
- The image has to stay unaltered. It must remain clear, readable and complete, with its original design intact, so do not recolour it or crop into it to match your site.
- A COR without a QR code cannot produce one. You are not required to replace an older COR, but you cannot extract a badge from a document that never carried one — the update is what generates it.
- Scan your own QR once before you publish it. It should land on verify.bir.gov.ph, and a badge pointing anywhere else is not the badge.
- Neither the circular's coverage nor its penalty is as clearly stated as it should be. No deadline and no specific penalty is named in the professional commentary, which usually means it leans on the general registration-compliance provisions. Ask your RDO what they are enforcing while you are there anyway.

## Sources

- [KPMG on RMC 38-2026, the badge for online sellers](https://kpmg.com/ph/en/insights/2026/06/the-birs-blue-check-the-badge-for-online-sellers.html)
- [Philippine News Agency: BIR requires online businesses to display the badge](https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1274296)
- [Philstar: the BIR's blue check for online sellers](https://www.philstar.com/business/2026/06/23/2537056/birs-blue-check-badge-online-sellers)
- [ORUS, the BIR online registration portal](https://orus.bir.gov.ph)
- [BIR Checklist of Documentary Requirements, revised July 2025](https://bir-cdn.bir.gov.ph/BIR/pdf/CDR%20-%202025%20(1).pdf)

## The forms behind this

- [BIR Form 2303: Certificate of Registration](https://taxkaya.com/d/forms/2303.md)
- [BIR Form 1905: Registration updates and closure](https://taxkaya.com/d/forms/1905.md)

## Known ORUS quirks

- [ORUS not showing Register Books, ATP, or your updated COR? Here's the fix](https://taxkaya.com/d/troubleshooting/orus-buttons-not-showing.md)