The Bureau of Internal Revenue has expanded the coverage of its digital platforms to 4.63 million business taxpayers last year, up by more than five percent from 4.41 million in 2021.
Former Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonio Carpio said that the claim of Marcos’s camp that the payment of the estate tax was suspended because of an agreement with the BIR and the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) to wait for the outcome of the case pending in the Sandiganbayan is “utterly false”.
NEWS ABOUT the Marcos family’s unpaid estate tax has sparked public discussion, highlighting the need for well-informed sources and historical contex
THE Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) only collected less than P4 billion in taxes from Philippine Offshore Gaming Operations (Pogos) last year, plunging by 45.5 percent from its take in 2020. Based on BIR Commissioner Caesar Dulay’s report to Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III, the bureau collected a total…
Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III (File photo) MANILA - The government is intent on collecting the unpaid estate taxes from the Marcoses, Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III said. "We have been in discussion, intense discussion with the Bureau of Internal Revenue on this issue and they are studying this issue very carefully," he told journalists on Tuesday. There have been several amounts on how much the estate tax due to the government from the family of former President Ferdinand Marcos Sr. and Dominguez said "that is for the BIR to determine." Dominguez said the amount originally was about PHP9 billion but because of penalties and interest after several court cases, there have been several amounts floated, such as PHP99 billion and PHP203 billion. "So which amount is going to be settled is in discussions now with BIR," he said, adding that from his understanding from the BIR, "is that they are trying to cut through all these issues in order