In its effort to innovate its services, the BIR has introduced the Electronic Certificate Authorizing Registration (eCAR) System. With the introduction of the eCAR System, the manual issuance of CAR has been effectively discontinued. 3-2019 which prescribes the use of the eCAR System provides that in order to stop the usage of spurious CARs, the eCAR shall bear a security feature of having a system-generated barcode. The eCAR shall, likewise, be printed on an accountable security paper. In case of unregistered land and/or improvement(s) thereon, one (1) eCAR shall likewise be issued for each tax declaration.

Source: Philippine Star May 20, 2019 16:00 UTC