Governance News
Nonprofit schools, hospitals to keep special tax...
17 August, 2018 at 15:30
The Department of Finance (DOF) yesterday clarified that non-profit private schools and hospitals would retain their 10-percent income tax rate as long as they “adhere to high standards of service”…
[EDITORIAL] No giving up
17 August, 2018 at 13:33
He is so exasperated with endemic, widespread corruption in this country, President Duterte sighed the other day, that he is considering stepping down.
Neda chief: Rush to federalism will disrupt...
16 August, 2018 at 15:43
A shift to federalism could derail the Duterte administration’s infrastructure projects and disrupt the Philippine economy’s growth momentum, according to the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda).
[OPINION] ‘Trabaho’ will reduce your taxes
16 August, 2018 at 13:00
There’s been much talk in recent months about fake news. And the one who’s been the greatest accuser of it has, ironically, been the greatest exemplar of it: Donald Trump, that “stable genius” (he said so himself) in the White House.
[OPINION] Requiem
16 August, 2018 at 11:26
One day Filipinos might yet be persuaded to cut up an already fragmented, dynastic and tribalistic country into federated regions.
[OPINION] What keeps us behind?
15 August, 2018 at 17:00
My last piece on how the Philippines remains the “kulelat” (tailender) among the five original Asean members (and now even including Vietnam) begs the question…
[OPINION] Advancing fiscal incentive reform
15 August, 2018 at 12:57
The rationalization of fiscal incentives is a long-overdue reform. It is a necessary reform for several reasons.
[OPINION] A virtual co-presidency
15 August, 2018 at 10:34
Two heads are better than one. This is particularly true if the two heads complement each other. Mutual respect is also necessary to make it work.
DOF won’t allow TRABAHO bill to incur...
14 August, 2018 at 16:49
Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III said that the Duterte administration would not allow the national government to incur additional fiscal deficit once its proposed second tax reform measure is passed into law.
[OPINION] The draft Constitution is terrible
14 August, 2018 at 14:00
Scratch that; the draft Constitution drawn up by the Puno Consultative Commission, is uber-terrible.
Bill seeks to delete foreign restriction in...
14 August, 2018 at 11:42
Sen. Sherwin T. Gatchalian has filed a bill to discard investment restrictions in a 78-year-old law that prevents foreign contractors from bidding on locally funded government public works projects.
Foreign investments hit 7-month high in May...
13 August, 2018 at 14:28
The Philippines remains on the radar of foreign investors as direct investments surged by 143 percent to hit a seven-month high of $1.64 billion in May from $677 million in the same period last year…
DOF chief: Draft federal charter could force...
13 August, 2018 at 12:12
Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III, the head of the Duterte administration’s economic team, warned that the draft federal Charter could lead to massive job losses in the public sector…
[OPINION] They didn’t understand
13 August, 2018 at 10:28
I was wrong, totally wrong. I had confidently predicted that the consultative committee would be forward-thinking and liberal in its devolution of a new, modern constitution.
