Dole-administered database to track foreign workers’ tax payments sought

07/03/2019

MANILA, Philippines – The government will come up with a single interagency database containing the names and information of all foreign workers in the country in a bid to collect all the personal income taxes due from…

Tax burden

Editorial 12/27/2017

Whatever side of the political spectrum one is, or if he or she is a political in the first place, taxes will always remain a contentious, divisive issue that will, more often than not, cross political boundaries.…

Supreme Court Associate Justice belies exam leakage

Izobelle T. Pulgo 11/24/2016

With unverified reports making the rounds online regarding alleged leakage in the Bar examinations in recent days, 2016 Bar Examinations Chairperson Presbitero Velasco Jr. has released a statement to belie the report. In his statement, Velasco said…

Duterte’s ‘endo’ gains traction, 24K workers regularized

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/18/2016

Employers across the country have heeded President Rodrigo Duterte’s call to stop contractualization. In his keynote speech at the Labor Summit on Friday in Cebu City, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said that as of November 11,…

Learning from Japanese taxation and subway systems

Jobers R. Bersales 08/31/2016

Kyoto, Japan — The wonders never cease, despite coming here in this ancient Japanese city a number of times already over the past decade. This industrial powerhouse of a country that once lay prone after two atomic…

More than words

Raymund Fernandez 07/26/2016

As it was, President Rodrigo Duterte’s speech turned out to be not so bad. For showing the human side of him, it might have been brilliant. That he affirmed: there will be no demolition (of squatters) without…

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