Analyst pushes partylist system reform
‘Unless reforms are undertaken, the partylist system risks losing public legitimacy altogether.’
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‘Unless reforms are undertaken, the partylist system risks losing public legitimacy altogether.’
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The country should reform its electricity subsidy programs by improving beneficiary targeting and integrating existing social protection and regulatory systems…
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Efforts to modernize customs operations and reduce trade bottlenecks have earned Customs commissioner Ariel Nepomuceno recognition as Asia’s Most Outstanding…
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Dr. Anthony C. Leachon, a prominent independent health reform advocate and past president of the Philippine College of Physicians (PCP), has petitioned a local…
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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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The Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD) is ramping up efforts to modernize housing regulation through a digitalization roadmap aimed…
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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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The Sablayan facility is one of the bureau’s primary agricultural penal farms.
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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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Applied to public budgeting, blockchain can create a continuous and verifiable record of how public funds move from appropriation to expenditure.
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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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