"Taxes are the life blood of the government and their prompt and certain availability is a.need, especially in times of national emergency," the Bureau of Internal Revenue said.
(PNA File Photo) MANILA - Tax exemption is not the best way to support those rendering election services, particularly public school teachers, the Department of Finance (DOF) said on Thursday. Arvin Quinones, director of the DOF Policy, Research and Liaison Office, made this remark after Senator Sherwin Gatchalian questioned during the Senate hearing the DOF's stand against a proposal to exempt from tax the honoraria and allowances of the teachers serving the elections. "If we really want to support these sectors, for example, these teachers who are rendering election services, then the tax exemption is not the best way to address them. That's our position in this matter. We have to address them, we have to support them, but the tax system is not the best way to do it," Quinones told the Senate Committees on Ways and Means and Electoral Reforms and People's Participation. Gatchalian, however, argued that the Tax Code already has several exemptions. "I'm l