PROVINCIAL Budget Officer Emme Gingoyon is insisting he is has not been dismissed from service despite the order from Ombudsman dismissing him and two others for their role on the controversial Balili lot case.
Three years into its term, the Aquino administration can no longer blame the oil smuggling problem on any other leadership, and it must now finally ask its economic managers to account for their failure to resolve it, according to senatorial candidate Milagros “Mitos” Magsaysay.
With nearly 100 media persons supposedly keeping watch on its operations, the Bureau of Customs is undoubtedly the country’s “most covered” government agency.
Customs Commissioner Ruffy Biazon on Tuesday acknowledged as “real” the problem of oil smuggling in the country but he disputed an INQUIRER report which quoted him as having said that it had become rampant during the first two-and-half years of the Aquino administration.
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).
The Department of Finance (DOF) is urging the Department of Transportation and Communications to require “differently colored” license plates for vehicles imported through special economic zones.
THE disagreement between Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama and the Department of Finance over the appointment of Tessie Camarillo as head of the City Treasurer’s Office may be history repeating itself. Just like in January 2012, Rama asked the Department of Finance (DOF) yesterday to respect his decision to appoint Emma Villarete as acting city [...]
Still smarting from what he believed was an abandonment by Palace allies, Senator Ralph Recto on Wednesday lashed out at the Department of Finance (DOF), saying the version of the sin tax bill passed by the House of Representatives could be the product of a “Purisima-San Miguel” alliance that allowed lower taxes for fermented liquor such as beer.
Seventeen former officials and employees of the Department of (DoF) Finance are facing criminal charges before the Sandiganbayan for granting P200 million worth of tax credits to a ghost company and its purported suppliers in the 1990s.
The Department of Finance’s (DoF) antigraft body has filed with the Office of the Ombudsman a complaint against a customs district collector in Cagayan for allegedly fabricated and inconsistent declarations in his statements of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN).
A lawmaker on Tuesday sought to strengthen and recognize the tax exemption for private educational institutions to keep them afloat financially and ensure that education was available to more Filipinos.
Thirteen officials and employees of the Department of Finance were ordered dismissed by the Office of the Ombudsman on Friday after it found them guilty of defrauding the government of P82 million in staging the so-called tax-credit scam in the 1990s.
For many years since he first became mayor here in 1995, Marino Morales has been lobbying to upgrade this town’s status into a component city in pursuit of a dream.
