After warning of its potential domino effect on transport operators and commuters, Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson filed a resolution seeking a thorough Senate review of the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s plan to hike common carriers’ tax by 2,600 percent.
Read More: Lacson files Resolution to Evaluate Common Carriers’ Tax Hike
This was how Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson assailed Saturday a plan by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to impose a whopping 2,600-percent tax hike on operators of buses, passenger jeeps and taxis to make up for its tax collection shortfall.
Read more: 2600% Tax Hike on Transport Operators Shortsighted, Unconscionable
Before telling telecommunications companies to practice ‘social responsibility’ by allotting 20 percent of text message profits to a special fund for health and education
government should first practice some responsibility of its own in collecting taxes efficiently.
Read more: Efficient Tax Collection, Not Text ‘Tax,’ Needed for Health, Education
In a bid to give tax and Customs collectors an added incentive to meet their collection goals, Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson has filed a bill exempting them from the Salary Standardization Law.
Read More: Lacson Bill Gives Tax, Customs Collectors Incentives to Do Job
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