Last week, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) asked the public for help locating two extremely expensive supercars that were reportedly imported into the country without paying the proper customs duties. The vehicles in question were 2 examples of the Bugatti Chiron hyper car, valued at ₱165M each. With...
Finance Secretary Ralph G. Recto calls on the Bureau of Customs (BOC) to keep the cash flowing, stressing the crucial link between efficient tax collections and funding at least a fifth of the government's spending. Addressing BOC employees during the agency’s anniversary celebration on Tuesday,...
Photo: Bureau of Customs The owner of the smuggled red Bugatti Chiron sports car voluntarily surrendered the luxury vehicle to the Bureau of Customs (BOC). The 165-million super sports car that the BOC was looking for was surrendered to the agency’s Customs Intelligence and Investigation...
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) surpassed its collection target for January, driven by improved import valuation, enhanced border protection, and tangible trade facilitation initiatives. The BOC, the government's second-largest tax agency, announced that it collected P73.33 billion in the first month...
Photos: Bureau of Customs The Bureau of Customs (BOC) is currently on the lookout for two smuggled Bugatti Chiron super sports cars valued at an astonishing P330 million. These 2023 model sports cars, one blue (with plate number NIM 5448) and one red (with plate number NIM 5450), have been...
ILIGAN CITY – The Bureau of Customs-Port of Cagayan de Oro intercepted two smuggled luxury vehicles misdeclared as used truck replacement parts at the Mindanao Container Terminal in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental, on December 15. ONE of the two smuggled Porsches in Misamis Oriental. (BOC-Port of...
Agents of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) have intercepted around P1.7 million worth of illegal drugs inside a warehouse of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA). BOC-NAIA District Collector Yasmin Obillos-Mapa said the illegal drugs were declared as vitamins, supplements, baby and body wash....
Senator Raffy Tulfo has called on the Bureau of Customs (BOC) to pursue the filing of charges against the trader responsible for smuggling more than P1.43-billion worth of contraband e-cigarettes bearing the "FLAVA" label. Tulfo said these contraband were seized by the Bureau of...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Social Security System (SSS), Bureau of Customs (BOC), and the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) signed a Memorandum of Agreement on Tuesday, November 7, in a hotel here for the social security coverage of job order and contractual personnel of these three offices who are not...
The Sandiganbayan has dismissed the appeal filed by former Cebu customs official Benjamin C. Bongon and private individual Roger T. Ang seeking to overturn their graft conviction on the irregular sugar auction conducted in 2000. In a decision dated Dec. 1, 2017, the Cebu City regional trial court...
Philippine authorities are still conducting an investigation to identify the persons behind the shipping of two cadavers that were discovered inside a container van in Thailand last week. The Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) confirmed the discovery of a male and a female decomposing bodies based on...
The Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) has granted P3.1 million out of the P5.5 million refund sought by the Philippine Airlines, Inc. (PAL) for the excise taxes the firm paid for imported wines, liquors and cigarettes in 2009 for consumption in its international flights. In its Oct. 5, 2023 decision, the...
