The Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) has granted the petition of former Chief Justice Maria Lourdes P.A. Sereno against her alleged P6.9 million deficiency income taxes, surcharges, and interests for taxable years 2011 to 2016. In a decision promulgated last May 14 by its special second division, the CTA...
Reinforced by the company’s strategies anchored on cost management strategies and injecting efficiency across its supply chain, the first quarter financial performance of Shell Pilipinas Corporation this year leaped to P1.4 billion from P800 million within the comparative three-month stretch in...
Generation output boosted by the commercial operations of new solar and wind farms had prompted 27% rise in the net income of Ayala-led ACEN Corporation in the first quarter to P2.7 billion versus P2.0 billion in the same period last year. That escalation in profitability, the company emphasized,...
The upturn in sales had propelled 16 percent rise in the first quarter net income of leading player Petron Corporation to P3.93 billion from last year’s three-month outcome of P3.4 billion. Petron indicated that the profitability climb had been registered across operational chains of the...
As coal prices in the world market cooled, the net income of Semirara Mining and Power Corporation (SMPC) dropped 28% to P6.5 billion within first quarter this 2024 from a relatively robust P9.0 billion earnings in the same three-month period last year. “Global coal indices declined due to weak...
With its power generation assets as income driver, this year’s first quarter earnings of Aboitiz Power Corporation jumped by 4.0% to P7.9 billion from year-ago level of P7.5 billion within comparative period in 2023. Without the non-recurring items, the company qualified that its profits would...
Propelled by energy sales that have been escalating beyond 10% within the stretch of the sweltering El Niño weather condition, power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) is favorably looking to end the year with core income jump to P40 billion from P37.1 billion in 2023. The company’s...
The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) reported that its profit increased by a fifth in the first three months of the year, driven by global investments. Wick Veloso, GSIS president and general manager, said that the pension fund’s net income surged by 21 percent to P37 billion in first...
Most taxpayers have already fulfilled their annual tax filing obligations ahead of the deadline, the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) reported. BIR Commissioner Romeo D. Lumagui Jr. said that 95 percent of registered taxpayers have filed and paid their 2023 income tax returns (ITR) prior to the...
The country’s socioeconomic planning agency remains positive that the Philippines will become an upper middle-income economy by next year. National Economic and Development Authority Arsenio M. Balisacan said that the country remains on track to achieving an upper middle-income status in 2025...
Multinational subsidiary Shell Pilipinas Corporation closed 2023 with earnings slowing down to P1.2 billion compared to the previous year’s rosier bottom line of P4.1 billion. The company indicated that its financial performance last year still placed the company on a solid footing - propelling...
Ayala-led energy platform ACEN Corp. reported a drop in last year’s net income due to non-cash items in 2022. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange on Tuesday, Mar. 12, ACE said its net income totaled P7.4 billion from January to December 2023, 43 percent lower than in 2022 including...
