Fiscal policy and taxation - Matches

LOCAL governments are expected to receive almost a trillion pesos next year as their share of national government's tax revenues.The Department of Bud..

This study examines the fiscal implications of the current criteria of establishing the fiscal viability of local governments in the Philippines. Sinc..

With the country still managing the COVID-19 pandemic, the election of national and local officials next year, and an increase in resources available ..

The House Committee on Ways and Means is moving to suspend or reduce excise taxes on selected fuel products as temporary relief for consumers amid sky..

The House Special Committee on Senior Citizens on Tuesday, Sept. 21, approved in principle a bill that would grant senior citizens an exemption from i..

Last Wednesday, the broadsheets reported that the Philippines will receive 1.958 billion Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) or around $2.777 billion from t..

As the country is still grappling with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, a large percentage of taxpayers said their incomes are going down, recent..

That the pandemic upended industries is no secret. Many businesses have either shuttered or are still struggling to stem their losses over a year into..

MANILA, Philippines — The government should come up with a policy package that is unique to the country if it wants to successfully capture the ..

The government needs to adopt a well-thought-out strategy and policy package in taxing the digital economy.Atty. Marissa O. Cabreros, deputy commissio..

In our column two weeks ago, “Imminent existential threat, or outright fiscal meltdown?” (BusinessWorld, May 14, 2021) we indicated that u..

Tax legislations must be updated to include virtual realities, as the current tax rules are anchored on the traditional way of doing business and may ..

MANILA, Philippines—The “new normal” ushered in by the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s (BIR..

ELEVATED food prices and the spike in oil prices will work in tandem to put pressure on inflation in the months to come, local economists said on Wedn..

THE GOVERNMENT may cut back on or “unfund” some of the programs, activities and projects (PAPs) in the budgets of some national government..