Fact Check: Marcoses pay P203-billion estate tax liability through GCash

Apr 4, 2022 | Fact Checked by PressOnePH

‘Literal na resibo’ (A literal receipt), was how social media users described the April Fools’ Day post Claim: The Marcos family has paid its P203-billion estate tax liability to the Bureau of Internal Revenue via a popular mobile wallet appRating: SATIREEven election...

Impunity in spending taxpayers’ money

Aug 27, 2021 | In the trenches, Opinion

They really believed they could get away with the killings.They hid behind a president who has been flouting the country’s laws since he got elected into office in 2016.Rodrigo Duterte has immunity from lawsuits only until he steps down in June 2022. Even if he is...

Manila offers online tax payment system to LGUs nationwide

May 23, 2020 | Metro

Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso has made the City of Manila’s online tax payment system available for use for all local government units (LGUs) in the country. The online system can be accessed through the URL cityofmanila.ph, or through the GO Manila...

Duterte imposes extra 10% import duty on crude, refined petroleum to augment Covid-19 funds

May 4, 2020 | Business

President Rodrigo Duterte has imposed an extra 10 percent import duty on crude oil and refined petroleum products, citing the need to raise more money for the Covid-19 response. Executive Order 113 cited emergency powers granted to Duterte by the “Bayanihan to...

Tax collections drop further amid Covid-19 pandemic

Apr 26, 2020 | Business

Total collections of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) from January to mid-April this year dived further to P480.64 billion — P226.15 billion or 32 percent below what it collected for the same period last year — as a result of the quarantine measures in...