From left to right: Lanao del Sur Rep. Zia Alonto Adiong, Zambales Rep. Jay Khonghun, Ako Bicol Rep. Jil Bongalon (Facebook) Members of the "Young Guns" bloc want the House of Representatives to investigate and get to the bottom of the alleged "fake...
By ANTONIO L. COLINA IV DAVAO CITY – Mayor Jose Nelson Z. Sala Sr. of Santa Cruz municipality in Davao del Sur province vowed to cooperate with the investigation on the controversy regarding the spurious birth certificates issued by its Local Civil Registry Office (LCRO). In a statement,...
For lack of jurisdiction, the Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) has dismissed the petition filed by HP PPS Philippines, Inc. which sought P165.2 million tax refund or tax credits from the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) for fiscal year 2017. HP PPS, a firm engaged in computer and peripheral equipment...
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) has recommended the cancellation of Bamban Mayor Alice Guo’s birth certificate to the Office of the Solicitor General, an official of the primary statistical arm of the government disclosed on Wednesday, June 26. Marizza B. Grande, Assistant...
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...
