President Benigno Aquino III, bothered by cough and cold, took a rest on Labor Day in his hometown in Tarlac on Wednesday before joining a political rally and seeking another dialogue with disgruntled trade union leaders.
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.
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.
The gold miner whom the group of Victor “Vic” Siman visited in Jose Panganiban, Camarines Norte, hours before a police-military team killed all 13 of them in Atimonan, Quezon province, 12 days ago has become a person of interest for the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR).
The Department of Finance is pushing for quicker action on cases against alleged tax evaders, smugglers and erring government employees as the department vowed to go for a more aggressive anticorruption campaign.
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.
Leave the Senate alone to do its job, thank you very much. Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile assailed Internal Revenue Commissioner Kim Henares’ supposed feelings of betrayal over Sen. Ralph Recto’s reporting out a Senate version of the sin tax measure that would reduce the projected income from the tax from P60 billion to P15 billion.
The last words of Julius Ceasar to his friend Marcus Brutus as he confronted his assassins on the Ides of March reflected the sentiment of finance and health officials a day after Sen. Ralph Recto reported out the Senate version of the sin tax reform bill.
Bureau of Internal Revenue Commissioner Kim Jacinto-Henares admitted Friday that the evidence they have gathered against former Chief Justice Renato Corona was incomplete although what they have showed that tax evasion has been committed.
After saying she had the advantage over all aspirants, Internal Revenue Commissioner Kim Henares announced on Monday she was backing out of the race for the vacant seat of Chief Justice Renato Corona, whom she helped oust.
Acting Chief Justice Antonio Carpio and five other justices of the Supreme Court on Monday joined 19 others who had agreed to undergo screening for the post of the next Chief Justice.
Justice Secretary Leila de Lima doesn’t quite agree with Internal Revenue Commissioner Kim Henares’ claim that the country’s chief tax collector has the edge to get the vacant post of Supreme Court Chief Justice.
Can the country afford to have a Chief Justice who would serve for nearly two decades through three Presidents?
