MORE TIME. Finance Secretary Benjamin Diokno wants to give tax measures implemented during the Duterte administration "more time" to really see their gains. His reaction was made when asked for his thoughts on the proposed Tax Reform Act for the Masses and the Middle Class filed by ACT Teachers Representative France Castro. (PNA file photo) MANILA - Department of Finance (DOF) Secretary Benjamin Diokno discounts the need to introduce further reforms in both the personal and corporate income tax systems, noting these have been amended a few years back. "We just amended both PIT (personal income tax) and CIT (corporate income tax). Let's give the new tax systems a chance to operate. Too early to tinker with it," he told journalists on Wednesday. Diokno's reaction was made in response to the proposed measure by ACT Teachers Representative France Castro titled Tax Reform Act for the Masses and the Middle Class (TRAMM), which according to the press release from t
© Provided by Xinhua LHASA, March 3 (Xinhua) Tibet Autonomous Region in southwest China has become an ideal habitat for wild animals over the years
© Provided by Xinhua LHASA, March 3 (Xinhua) Tibet Autonomous Region in southwest China has become an ideal habitat for wild animals over the years
© Provided by Xinhua LHASA, March 3 (Xinhua) Tibet Autonomous Region in southwest China has become an ideal habitat for wild animals over the years
(File photo) MANILA - Malacanang is pushing the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) to expand its Covid-19 Home Isolation Benefit Packages (CHIBP) to include free reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing. Acting Presidential Spokesperson and Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said PhilHealth currently covers free testing but only among patients who are symptomatic and are currently confined in public or private hospitals. "We're also pushing PhilHealth to increase the packages for home treatment. Those who are treating themselves at home can also be covered by PhilHealth. The PhilHealth package will also include RT-PCR," he said in an interview over ABS-CBN News Channel's Headstart. RT-PCR testing is considered the gold standard in detecting the virus that causes Covid-19. Currently, the CHIBP is available to patients who passed both clinical and social criteria in surge areas declared by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management