The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has made progress through campaigns like RATE (Run After Tax Evaders) and RAFT (Run After Fake Transactions). But if we are serious about fighting corruption, ...

Two recent reports on public finance leadership caught my attention. First was the exit of Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) Commissioner Romeo D. Lumagui, Jr., who was replaced by Department of ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines and Hong Kong have started the first round of negotiations for their double taxation agreement (DTA) in a bid to boost business confidence and spur economic ...

The problem is not merely corruption inside the BIR — it is the outdated system that enables it. Manual audits enable bribery, while random audits repeatedly target MSMEs.

In a bid to boost the country’s capital markets, Congress approved the bicameral conference report on the Capital Markets Efficiency Promotion Act (CMEPA) bill. The CMEPA bill will introduce ...

Philippines to Netflix, Max: Want to Operate Here? Prepare to Pay a 12% Tax To raise money for government projects, the Philippines will extend a 12% tax on digital services to international companies ...

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday signed a law that lowers corporate income taxes and boosts incentives for businesses, in a bid to spur more investment into one of Asia’s ...

Local steel making and metal casting industries in the Philippines want the government to tax exporters of scrap metal if it cannot impose a ban on exports. The House of Representatives committee of ...

WITH deepening economic, health and education inequalities, the Philippines should overhaul its tax system to make the country’s wealthiest pay more, according to a study by Oxfam Pilipinas and Action ...

MANILA, Feb 8 (Reuters) - The Philippines' lower congressional chamber on Monday passed a bill imposing taxes on online gambling firms, as the Southeast Asian nation seeks funds to recover from the ...

Social Watch Philippines calls on the public to monitor the Philippine delegation at the WHO FCTC COP11 in Switzerland, ...