Labella eyes higher cash incentives for Cebu City-based SEAG medal winners

Irene R. Sino Cruz 12/17/2019

CEBU CITY — Southeast Asian Games medal winners based in Cebu City can expect higher cash incentives. Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella told reporters that he would be looking for other sources to increase cash incentives for…

Former Finance Secretary De Ocampo favors TRABAHO Bill, sees tax compromise for ecozone firms

Irene R. Sino Cruz 08/10/2019

CEBU CITY— Former Finance Secretary Roberto De Ocampo favors the Tax Reform for Attracting Better and Higher-quality Opportunities (TRABAHO) bill, the second package under the administration’s comprehensive tax reform program (CTRP).  “The thrust of the administration in…

DepEd: Higher tobacco tax to make cigarettes less available to youth

Inquirer.net 02/07/2019

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Education (DepEd) has expressed support to the proposal to impose a higher tax on tobacco products, saying it would make cigarettes “less available and affordable” to the youth. “Significant increase in…

Kill the excise tax, not the poor with higher prices

Fernando Fajardo 10/11/2018

What the government should do instead is to tax the sale of cars, with rates going up the more expensive the units. Then charge them with higher road user’s fee when they register their cars. Early this…

Biz heads: Cebu to take a hit from higher airline ticket costs

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 09/18/2018

AIRLINES’ REIMPOSITION OF FUEL SURCHARGE Local tour and travel operators are wary over the recent decision of the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) to reimpose the fuel surcharge by airlines on plane tickets due to increasing prices of…

Guardo wants to raise electric posts higher

Zena Magto 09/05/2018

  Cebu City Councilor Jerry Guardo is planning to compel the Visayas Electric Company (VECO) to raise its electric posts from 16 feet to 20 feet. Guardo said he is now drafting an ordinance to address the…

City gov’t told to prove first taxes will go to right projects

Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Morexette Marie B. Erram 09/03/2018

Cebu city’s bid to hike biz taxes Increasing taxes should be worthy and reflective of the services of local government, some business leaders in Cebu said. Cebu Business Club (CBC) President Gordon Alan Joseph said that while…

COA recommends higher tax rates for Cebu City

Morexette Marie B. Erram 07/07/2018

The Cebu City government could have earned an additional P1.6 billion if they had amended the Revised Omnibus Tax Ordinance and imposed a 10 percent increase, at most, in local taxes. “The Revised Omnibus Tax Ordinance of…

The impact of higher interest rate on prices, output and employment

Fernando Fajardo 06/21/2018

In response to rising inflation rate, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) raised its overnight reverse repurchase rate from 3.25 percent to 3.50 percent during its meeting last Wednesday. A similar increase was done only 6 weeks…

Higher fee for MCIA’s new terminal

Futch Anthony Inso 06/07/2018

Passengers booked for international flights at Mactan Cebu International Airport (MCIA) can expect an increase in terminal fee after the newly constructed terminal 2 starts operations on July 1. MCIA general manager Steve Dicdican said they will…

Cebu City could have ranked higher in safest cities list – Tolentin

Ador Mayol, Morexette B. Erram 04/09/2018

While Cebu City was hailed as one of the safest cities to live in Southeast Asia, criminals should beware. Supt. Reyman Tolentin, spokesperson of the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7), warned those involved in illegal…

Love, the higher law

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 12/13/2017

TECHNOLOGY lawyer Manuel C. Gordon, or simply MC Gordon, went beyond understanding human law and embraced the calling to answer a “higher law” in his first book published last year by Far Left Publishing. In “Higher Law,”…

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