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BIR files tax raps against 4 companies

Ina Reformina, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 07 05:44 PM

The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) filed tax evasion charges against four companies on Thursday. Read more »

Rappler CEO files counter-affidavit on tax evasion charges

Ina Reformina, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 07 06:35 PM

MANILA (UPDATED) - Rappler Holdings Corporation (RHC) and its president, Maria Ressa, urged the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday to dismiss the P133.84-million tax evasion case filed by the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Read more »

Subpoenas sent to Rappler's Ressa, Bitanga for tax raps

Ina Reformina, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 17 09:00 PM

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has set hearings for the preliminary investigation into the tax evasion complaint against Rappler Holdings Corporation (RHC) and two of its top executives. Read more »

Bus firm president gets 8 to 16 years in prison for tax evasion

Adrian Ayalin, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 27 07:28 PM

Kingsam Express Incorporation president Samuel Santos was sentenced by the Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) to imprisonment of 8 to 16 years for four counts of tax evasion for the taxable years 2008 and 2009. Read more »

Rappler lawyer rejects tax evasion rap

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 13 10:44 AM

News website Rappler did not have to pay income tax or value added tax for the sale of its Philippine depositary receipts or PDRs, contrary to allegations made in a tax evasion complaint, its lawyer said Tuesday.   Read more »

Rappler, nahaharap sa tax evasion, cyber libel

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 09 12:01 AM

Isang tax evasion at isang cyber libel complaint ang isinampa ng National Bureau of Investigation sa Department of Justice laban sa news website na Rappler. Read more »

Rappler goes 'overboard' with tax payments, Ressa says

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 08 04:07 PM

News website Rappler goes "overboard" when paying taxes, its CEO Maria Ressa said Thursday, after the Bureau of Internal Revenue filed a tax evasion complaint against her and several others. Read more »

Rappler faces tax evasion complaint

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 08 01:35 PM

The Bureau of Internal Revenue said Thursday it filed a tax evasion complaint against the holding company of news website Rappler, its president, Maria Ressa, and another official. Read more »

BIR files tax raps vs 2 Manila firms

Ina Reformina, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 02 06:25 PM

The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has filed separate tax evasion complaints involving a total of P23.16 million in supposed unsettled taxes against two alleged delinquent taxpayers from Manila.   Read more »

Dunkin' Donuts' PH franchisee charged with P1-billion tax evasion raps

Ina Reformina, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 23 06:12 PM

The Bureau of Internal Revenue has filed a P1.12-billion tax evasion case against Golden Donuts Inc, the exclusive Philippine franchisee of international brand Dunkin' Donuts. Read more »

Samsung chairman named as suspect for tax evasion: report

Reuters
Posted at Feb 08 12:27 PM

South Korean police named Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Kun-hee as a suspect over allegations that he used bank accounts held in someone else's name that held some 400 billion won (P18.91 billion), Yonhap News Agency said on Thursday. Read more »

'Exorcist' sa Amerika makukulong dahil di nagbayad ng buwis

Nate Raymond, Reuters
Posted at Jan 18 08:02 PM

Makukulong ang isang "exorcist" o tagataboy umano ng masamang espiritu matapos hindi magbayad ng buwis sa Boston, Massachusetts sa Amerika.   Read more »

Gov't caught 'big fish' with Mighty Corp, says finance chief

Dharel Placido ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 08 01:45 PM

MANILA - The government has caught the country’s biggest tax evader, cigarette-maker Mighty Corp, which has settled its liabilities, Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III said Monday. Read more »

Mark Taguba, Kenneth Dong face tax evasion raps

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 04 11:18 PM

Tax evasion charges were filed against two key personalities who are at the center of a multi-billion peso drug shipment that was smuggled past the Bureau of Customs last year. Read more »

'Fixer' Mark Taguba, trader Kenneth Dong slapped with tax evasion raps

Ina Reformina, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 04 02:14 PM

The Bureau of Internal Revenue has charged "fixer" Mark Ruben Taguba II and businessman Yi Shen Dong, also known as Kenneth Dong, with separate tax evasion cases. Read more »

China tightens rules on overseas cash withdrawals

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Dec 31 05:18 PM

China has tightened rules on how much cash cardholders can withdraw overseas in a bid to clamp down on money laundering, terrorist financing and tax evasion, authorities said Saturday.    Read more »

BIR files 4 tax evasion raps

Ina Reformina, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 21 08:19 PM

The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) filed several tax evasion complaints before the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday. Read more »

OPINION: 'Do not cut our taxes!' Only in the USA

Buddy Gomez — Cyberbuddy
Posted at Nov 17 09:42 PM

Do you think we can ever hear something similar from the folks in Forbes Park and the Makati Business Club crowd? Read more »

BIR files raps vs 7 taxpayers

Ina Reformina, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 17 03:22 PM

The Bureau of Internal Revenue filed separate tax evasion complaints against 4 alleged delinquent Manila taxpayers and falsification raps against 3 Makati taxpayers. Read more »

Court acquits Corona daughter in tax evasion case

Adrian Ayalin, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 13 05:07 PM

The Court of Tax Appeals has acquitted Ma. Carla Beatrice C. Castillo, daughter of the late former Chief Justice Renato Corona, of her tax evasion case filed by the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Read more »