The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) announced that the agency has removed the five-year validity period for electronic certificate authorizing registration (eCAR). In a Facebook post on Monday, June 24, BIR Commissioner Romeo D. Lumagui Jr. said that eCAR is now valid until its presentation...
Surigao del Norte 2nd district Rep. Robert Ace Barbers (House of Representative’s’ Facebook) Surigao del Norte 2nd district Rep. Robert Ace Barbers said the Philippine Statistics Authority’s (PSA) has established a technical working...
Senator Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada on Tuesday, June 4 pushed for the bill that would strengthen the system of filing of birth certificates in the country, noting how delayed registration of such documents have been abused. Estrada said passage into law of Senate Bill No. 2703...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Wednesday, May 1 announced that it will investigate former Surigao del Sur Representative Prospero Pichay, Jr. over alleged material misrepresentation in his certificate of candidacy (COC) in the last May 2022 elections. In a statement, the...
BACOLOD CITY – Fifteen thousand individuals here have no birth certificates and the Civil Registrar’s Office is eyeing to register them. Hermilo Pa-oyon, city civil registrar, said that they were among the more than 19,000 individuals who have submitted their documents for verification based on...
Developers of gigawatt-scale floating solar farm projects are in a bind on their project finance-raising activities because of the programmatic environmental compliance certificate (ECC) that may turn out not acceptable as requirement to lenders, especially to foreign banks. In an interview,...
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) has reduced the prices for ordering multiple copies of civil registry records through its online service platform. According to the statistics office, the cost of obtaining two copies of PSA certificates through the PSA Serbilis website has been lowered by...
The Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) has denied the petition filed by SL Harbor Bulk Terminal Corporation to compel the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to issue tax credit for P10.33 million as alleged erroneously paid taxes. SL Harbor filed its administrative claim for tax credit on June 26, 2020 for...
Senator Christopher "Bong" Go expressed support for the proposed budget of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) for 2024, including the agency's programs that can help marginalized farmers. Senator Cynthia Villar noted this during the Senate Finance Subcommittee hearing held last Thursday,...
BACOLOD CITY – A 103-year-old woman from Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental died the night before the turnover of her authenticated birth certificate issued by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) on August 9. EUFRONIA Fernandez (Photo courtesy of PSA-Negros Occidental) Eufronia...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has released on its website downloadable Certificate of Candidacy (COC) forms for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) slated on October 30. *(MB file photo)* "This page contains downloadable forms in relation with the Filing of Certificates of...
The Presidential Communications Office (PCO) said that migrant Filipino workers no longer have to pay additional fees when they request their Overseas Employment Certification (OEC) using the new mobile app of the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW). *OFW Pass (DMW/RTVM Screenshot)* The PCO said...
