January to November Fiscal Deficit at P26.8 billion 29 December 2014 Manila, Philippines – The National Government (NG) achieved a P6.8 billion fiscal surplus in November despite revenues contracting 4%…
Purisima: Prudent fiscal management keeps us in virtuous cycle "I am pleased to note that the National Government’s budget balance in November 2014 was at a surplus of P6.8 billion,…
Operatives of the Bureau of Customs Intelligence Group apprehended a total of seven container vans containing various smuggled items from China at the Manila International Container Port on Tuesday (December…
Students joined the Department of Finance (DOF) and Bureau of Internal Revenue's (BIR) earnest tax campaign to boost compliance and revenues by hosting an inter-university marketing competition. Participants in the…
Revenue collections by the Bureau of Customs (BOC) continued to grow at double-digit levels even as the price of imported petroleum products tempered in November. From January to November 2014,…
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) is set to auction over 4,600 Metric Tons of smuggled rice, the bulk of which were seized shipments of trading firms linked to David Tan.…
Six persons face smuggling-related cases filed by the Bureau of Customs (BOC) for attempting to sneak-in a total of 413 Casio G-Shock watches through Balikbayan Boxes. The watches have a…
Purisima: Good governance set off a virtuous cycle towards inclusive and sustainable growth The Board of Directors of Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), an independent agency of the U.S. government, at…
“The Department of Finance (DOF) has finished 2014 strong,” DOF Chief Economist and Undersecretary Gil Beltran of the Policy Development and Management Services Group concluded at the DOF year-end performance…
Top supplier of online shopping sites in hot water Joint inter-agency government operatives raided a warehouse of a top online shop supplier in Binondo, Manila and seized various counterfeit smartphones,…
