Finance Secretary Benjamin E. Diokno welcomed the decision of the Supreme Court affirming the constitutionality of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) Act amid petitions claiming the law to be “anti-poor” and unlawful. The Supreme Court dismissed the petitioners’...
TECH4GOOD Monchito Ibrahim The rapid digitalization of everything we do today is fast changing the country's financial inclusion landscape. Although the share of the unbanked population in the country is still one of the highest in the Asia Pacific region according to Statista research, the...
Individual taxpayers will get income tax breaks next year, providing Filipino consumers additional purchasing power, but would result in billions of foregone government revenues. This is because the second tranche reduction in personal income tax as mandated under the Tax Reform for Acceleration...
#MINDANAO John Tria In last week’s column I enjoined you all to review 2022 as we take a look ahead to 2023. Indeed the lessons we have learned from post pandemic recovery practices to the responses to the challenges posed by geopolitical realities such as the Ukraine conflict and climate related...
FROM THE MARGINS The future is Agriculture 4.0. Slowly but surely, the breakthroughs in technology that have transformed other industries is changing agriculture. Connectivity, mobile adoption, artificial intelligence, and other emerging technologies are transforming the whole agricultural value...
FROM THE MARGINS Last week, House Speaker Martin Romuldez vowed to pass by December the administration’s priority bills, including the Passive Income and Financial Intermediary Taxation Act (PIFITA), the last tranche of the government’s Comprehensive Tax Reform Program. The PIFITA is laudable...
PayMaya and Maya Bank officers, led by PayMaya Philippines Group President and Maya Co-Founder, Shailesh Baidwan (10 th from the left); PayMaya Philippines COO, Khurram Malik (11 th from the left); and Maya Business Head, Mar Lazaro (9 th from the left); recognized key partners that have championed...
FROM THE MARGINS Once touted as something of a miracle cure for global poverty, microfinance used to be a high-profile and generously-funded development intervention. In recent years, however, support for the sector has dwindled, with development finance institutions moving on to new disruptive...
FROM THE MARGINS JAIME ARISTOTLE B. ALIP, PHD Putting agriculture at the forefront of our development agenda is a good move on the part of President Marcos. His assumption of the post of Agriculture Secretary is an affirmation of the promise made during his presidential campaign to lower the price...
Procter & Gamble announces new commitments and shares progress on actions to strengthen equality and inclusion across Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa Procter & Gamble has announced new commitments aimed toward advancing equality and inclusion across Asia Pacific, the Middle East,...
Insular Life (InLife) and leading mobile wallet GCash have vowed to make financial services more accessible to all Filipinos, especially for the unbanked and underbanked. During the formal launch of their partnership on Wednesday, March 9, the local insurer and the largest FinTech platform in the...
Presidential candidate Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. appeared to have no idea about senatorial aspirant Robin Padilla's inclusion in the official ticket of the BBM-Sara UniTeam. (Contributed photo) In an ambush interview after his proclamation rally in bailiwick Ilocos Norte on early Thursday...
