The Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) has ordered a businessman to pay the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) P6.6 million in deficiency income and value-added taxes of his company for calendar year 2016. Redentor Agpuldo Tagala, proprietor of 7th Concept Trading and 7C Construction, filed a petition for...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) First Division has dismissed the second disqualification case filed against leading senatorial candidate ACT-CIS Party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo. Senatorial candidate ACT-CIS Party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo In the page five-page order dated March 11, the Comelec First...
The Sandiganbayan has dismissed the 23 criminal charges filed against City Accountant Racquel L. Bautista and City Treasurer Roberto V. Viduya of Bislig City in Surigao del Sur for violation of their right to speedy disposition of cases. Bautista and Viduya were charged with 23 counts of...
The Sandiganbayan has denied the disqualification of the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) of the Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) in handling the civil forfeiture case filed against businessman Ernest de Leon Escaler. Escaler is a respondent in the civil case docketed as SB-14-CVL-0002 for...
The Sandiganbayan has affirmed the graft conviction of a private individual who tried to evade trial by fabricating her death. Mary Ann Maslog, former agent and representative of Esteem Enterprises, was found guilty of violating Section 3(e) of Republic Act No. 3019 or the Anti-Graft and...
ACT-CIS Party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo (Mark Balmores/ MANILA BULLETIN)) A just and fair decision. That's how administration senatorial bet ACT-CIS Party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo described the Commission on Elections' (Comelec) decision to junk the...
A petition for disqualification has been filed anew against leading senatorial candidate ACT-CIS Party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo. In the 22-page petition provided by Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman George Erwin Garcia, petitioners Berteni Cataluña Causing, Graft-Free Philippines...
A 20-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday, Feb. 25, for raping his 13-year-old friend who stayed overnight at his house in Antipolo City, Rizal. A man (middle) arrested for allegedly assaulting his 13-year-old friend in Antipolo City. (Photo from the Rizal PPO) The Rizal Police Provincial Office...
Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman George Erwin Garcia said on Tuesday, Feb. 18, that the poll body has so far printed nearly half of the required number of ballots for the May 2025 elections. Verifiers of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) carefully inspect printed ballots for the May...
A petition for disqualification from seeking public office has been filed before the Commission on Elections (Comelec) against the Tulfo brothers namely senatorial candidates ACT-CIS Party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo and Ben Tulfo as well as three of their relatives. (MB file photo) The petition, filed...
By pleading guilty to a lesser offense, the treasurer of Caraga town in Davao Oriental evaded a possible longer jail term in his graft case. After his Sandiganbayan arraignment and before the prosecution could start presenting its evidence, treasurer Jaime D. Labasano filed a plea barganing...
After over a decade, convicted overseas Filipino worker (OFW) Mary Jane Veloso, who has been on death row in Indonesia for over a decade for drug charges, is finally returning to the Philippines, President Marcos announced on Wednesday, Nov. 20. File photos In a social media post, Marcos thanked...
