CEBU CITY—The Bureau of Customs seized two 40-footer container vans which contained Mighty cigarettes that were believed to have fake tax stamps, at the Pier 4 here on Tuesday noon. The vans were unloaded from MV Don Alberto…
CEBU CITY–Assert yourselves. Hoping to eradicate or lessen corruption, President Rodrigo Duterte called on Filipinos not to remain silent and to instead stand up against irregularities in government. “The thing about corruption is that Filipinos are not…
A different approach in tax administration was seen by the Bureau of Internal Revenue in Central Visayas (BIR-13) as the “trick” to attain its collection goals this year. Newly appointed BIR-13 chief Alfredo Misajon voiced his optimism…
A customs official in Cebu hoped that the surplus in import taxes and duties collected in 2016 would help change the public’s perception on the Bureau of Customs (BOC) and its workers. Cebu district collector Rico Rey…
Benchmarking can help the revenue department to identify the companies’ performance in a certain industry, a factor that can help the department and the companies involve to increase their tax compliance. According to the Bureau of Internal…
The proposal of the European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines to create a special lane that will grant “good” taxpayers certain benefits can be made into a policy that the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) districts…
The Cebu provincial government has failed to remit P17.3 million to the Bureau of Internal Revenue, representing the 20 percent share of the national government of the Development fund and Special Education Fund (SEF) which the province…
FORT MAGSAYSAY, Nueva Ecija — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday vowed to provide an incremental increase in the salaries of state forces starting next month. “Starting next month, (may) incremental increase (na) sweldo niyo,” Duterte said in…
TWO days after announcing that it would start to validate the tax returns of controversial retired general Vicente Loot and all those with the name of “Peter Lim” in Cebu to check on their possible undeclared properties…
THE government should support rather than make it difficult for startups and small businesses to grow by giving them tax breaks in their first two years of operation, Sen. Paolo Benigno “Bam” Aquino IV said Thursday. During…
THE Bureau of Internal Revenue District Office said it may finish its tax return validation on Daanbantayan Mayor Vicente Loot and all the “Peter Lims” in Cebu sometime this week. Loot’s tax return is being validated in…
Retired police general and now Mayor Vicente Loot of the town of Daanbantayan in Cebu, who was among the five police generals accused by President Rodrigo Duterte of allegedly coddling drug lords, will face another challenge: a…
