Budget deficit widens despite strong tax collections
The national government’s budget deficit widened to P198.5 billion in May, up 36.7 percent from P145.2 billion a year earlier, as lower non-tax revenues offset…
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The national government’s budget deficit widened to P198.5 billion in May, up 36.7 percent from P145.2 billion a year earlier, as lower non-tax revenues offset…
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The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) said the Department of Justice (DoJ) has found probable cause to file 44 criminal tax cases against former Department of…
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The House prosecution panel has asked the Senate impeachment court to allow the opening of a sealed box containing the tax records of Vice President Sara…
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Local government units (LGUs) next year will be allotted a total of P1.32 trillion in the form of National Tax Allotments (NTAs), the LGUs’ constitutionally…
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates told US members of Congress that the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had sought to "blackmail"…
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Under international human rights law, the Philippines is bound by Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which it ratified in…
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Relief operations involved some 160 personnel and volunteers from International Container Terminal Services Inc.; Solaire; South Cotabato Integrated Port…
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The case stemmed from the BIR’s complaint for willful failure to supply correct and accurate information in the respondents’ 2010 income tax return.
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Thirteen years. That’s how long a domestic miner fought for a tax exemption it already had on paper. The Supreme Court just told the Bureau of Internal Revenue…
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The children of pork barrel scam mastermind Janet Lim Napoles were acquitted by the Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) en banc of tax evasion charges filed by the…
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The reason was obscene in its very nature; the Marcos government found a way to profit from a war half a world away.
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Senator Erwin Tulfo on Sunday floated a proposal to place top government officials, including legislators, under a “no-work, no-pay” policy amid the prolonged…
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Akbayan Partylist Rep. Chel Diokno said efforts to curb political dynasties should also address the partylist system, which he said has become another avenue…
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A House leader said on Saturday that the version of the Anti-Political Dynasty Bill approved by the House of Representatives is the most realistic proposal yet…
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A partylist lawmaker has filed a bill at the House of Representatives that would expand paid paternity leave benefits to up to 105 days, aiming to give fathers…
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The Supreme Court (SC) has clarified when the processing period begins for value-added tax (VAT) refund claims, updating existing rules to reflect changes in…
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TACLOBAN CITY — A pending bill in Congress seeking to convert the Catarman-based University of Eastern Philippines (UEP) into a national university for…
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Most of those who retired under this law in 2001 and earlier are already dead or are either dying or suffering a life of poverty and deprivation.
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