What Went Before: Corona tax evasion case
On August 30, 2012, the Bureau of Internal Revenue filed a P150-million tax evasion case against former Chief Justice Renato Corona, his daughter Maria Carla and her husband Constantino Castillo III.
On August 30, 2012, the Bureau of Internal Revenue filed a P150-million tax evasion case against former Chief Justice Renato Corona, his daughter Maria Carla and her husband Constantino Castillo III.
The Bureau of Internal Revenue filed on Thursday a criminal complaint against a Cebu City-based ophthalmologist for evading taxes and failing to supply the BIR with correct and accurate information in his tax returns for 2009 to 2011.
Thus did Revenue Commissioner Kim Henares justify the release of the list that’s causing restlessness among not a few of those who are on it and those who are not.
The Lopez brothers are reportedly wondering why they’re not on the list of the country’s top taxpayers. Others are wondering why the few tycoons on the list pay less than the amounts that the Bureau of Internal Revenue collects from celebrities. Still others are asking why several tycoons are not on the list.
On the weekend before the April 15 tax return deadline, the Bureau of Internal Revenue took an unusual step. More than 120 lists of top taxpayers from more than 120 revenue district offices were uploaded to its website with the intention not so much to praise the people on the list but to shame those who were not listed.
After challenging his colleagues and other government officials to waive their bank secrecy rights, reelectionist Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero on Friday called for intensified lifestyle checks on government officials of agencies where corruption is perceived to be rampant such as the Bureau of Customs and the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
Internal Revenue Commissioner Kim Henares said on Thursday she favored the scrapping of the “cedula” or community tax certificate, saying it no longer had any use today.
With fame comes fortune which, unfortunately, is taxable.
Two restaurants and a comedy bar in Quezon City owned by the same person were shuttered for tax violations as the Bureau of Internal Revenue makes good on its fight against cheating high-income individual taxpayers.
THE GOVERNMENT through Bureau of Customs and Bureau of Internal Revenue should boost its surveillance capabilities to stop oil smuggling. Don’t look at us. We are legitimate oil players and we pay our taxes.
Malacañang has admitted that oil smuggling continues in the country but has emphasized that government is trying to lick it through increased monitoring of economic zones and large ports in Limay, Bataan, Batangas City, Manila International Container Port and the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA).
Left with nothing to go by except a woman’s claim that she was kidnapped, the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) admitted they were hard-pressed for answers in connection with the alleged abduction of an ABS-CBN network employee last week.
President Benigno Aquino III’s message to Chinese-Filipino businessmen last week couldn’t be clearer than when he spoke in Chinese and uttered these words: “Hui sin pa la tyo she.”
