Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III swore into office last week former Sen. Alberto Romulo as the new chairman of the board of the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP). Rogelio…
The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) will allocate P50 million to enable the Mining Industry Coordinating Council (MICC) to undertake a comprehensive review of mining contracts nationwide, starting with…
Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III is urging the Bureaus of Customs (BOC) and of Internal Revenue (BIR) to file at the soonest the appropriate charges against persons and companies proven…
The Mining Industry Coordinating Council (MICC) has approved the guidelines on the conduct of an “objective, fact-finding, science-based” review of mining operations nationwide, starting with those ordered shuttered or suspended…
A non-government coalition advocating tax and fiscal reforms has expressed its full support for the proposed adjustments in automobile excise taxes as way to help raise revenues that would fund…
Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III stressed today that although the budget deficit incurred by the national government (NG) hit P353.4 billion in 2016, or P231.7 billion higher than the year-ago…
The Mining Industry Coordinating Council (MICC) will meet for the second time tomorrow (March 3) to discuss the nitty-gritty of the three-month review that the five technical review teams (TRTs)…
The spokesperson of the Department of Finance (DOF) today asserted that Secretary Carlos Dominguez III’s position on the mining policy of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is…
Over 200 informal lenders have applied for registration before the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) after the government initiated a crackdown against loan sharks engaged in “five-six” and other usurious…
Raw data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) and the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) showing that 27.9 percent of taxes that high-income earners should pay the government are uncollected…
