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...
The government will soon use a green criteria in its procurement process to promote sustainable practices and comply with the United Nation Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) after the House of Representatives on Monday, Dec. 12, passed on the third and final reading House Bill (HB) No. 6468 or...
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) has distributed 3,524 certificates of land ownership award (CLOAs) in South Cotabato, Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, and Sarangani. In a statement, DAR said the distributed CLOAs to 3,273 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) cover a total of 6,103 hectares of...
Bataan 1st district Rep. Geraldine Roman is pushing for legislation that would complete the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) by facilitating its second phase. House Bill (HB) No.223, which Roman filed, institutes the second phase of the CARP, which includes the distribution of...
The House of Representatives has given its penultimate approval to a measure seeking the emancipation of agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) from P58 billion worth of debt stemming from the award of agricultural lands under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). The House plenary...
With 258 congressmen voting "yes", the House approved on third and final reading Monday afternoon, Nov. 14 the fourth package of the government’s Comprehensive Tax Reform Program (CTRP). (PPAB) Formerly known as the Passive Income and Financial Intermediary Taxation Act (PIFITA), the fourth...
A House panel has approved the substitute bill for the emancipation of agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) from P58 billion worth of debt stemming from the award of agricultural lands under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). The House plenary (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN)...
Magsasaka Party-list continues to push for the passage of a bill that seeks the condonation of debt burdens and amortizations accrued by agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs). Sugarcane farmers (Manila Bulletin File Photo) “Condoning the debts now of the agrarian reform beneficiaries will not only...
A farmers’ organization in Senator Ninoy Aquino, Sultan Kudarat has received a newly renovated processing building, complete with equipment and packaging materials from the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), in a bid to boost the agricultural production and income of agrarian reform...
Senator Imee Marcos today sought an accelerated implementation of the decades-old land reform program as government still has to spend P8.36 billion for the land reform backlog of the Department of Agrarian Reform. The agrarian reform program has so far seen the distribution of 4.8 million hectares...
Amid the many challenges that farmers face today such as the pandemic, calamities, and rising cost of farm inputs, AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee proposed a bill which seeks to free Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs) from their unpaid land reform loan amortization and interests. Under House...
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) is eyeing more resilient programs for the next six years by reinforcing its three main goals – to speed up land distribution, ensure delivery of agrarian justice, and empower the agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs). Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR)...
