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Group readies injunction suit vs Comelec

Poll body says no more extensions of deadline for Smartmatic-TIM

2009/07/03

By Marie A. Surbano

Sign a deal with the Smartmatic-Total Information Management (TIM) consortium and the Commission on Elections (Comelec) is certain to face a case before the Supreme Court (SC).

Thus was the pledge made by a group calling itself the Concerned Citizens Movement (CCM) in a bid to stop the signing of the contract between the poll body and the winning bidders that will supply the 82,200 precinct count optical scan (PCOS).

Lawyer Harry Roque, a UP law professor, said they will lodge a .. Full Story »»»

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BIR accuses BSP of tax evasion

By Ruben Hortelano

The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) demanded yesterday that the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) settle its tax obligations worth P1.5 billion for taxable year 2005 alone.

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