House Deputy Speaker and Batangas 6th district Rep. Ralph Recto (Facebook) Batangas 6th district Rep. Ralph Recto is asking President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. to certify as urgent the House measure extending the deadline of the estate tax amnesty for another two years. Recto, a deputy...
AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee (Rep. Lee's office) AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee has echoed calls from the House leadership to extend the availment period of estate tax amnesty for another two years. For this purpose, Lee penned and filed House Bill (HB) No.7842, or the proposed Act...
High-ranking House of Representatives members are seeking a two-year extension to the availment of the estate tax amnesty, as provided for under Republic Act (RA) No.11213 or the "Tax Amnesty Act". Leading the filing of House Bill (HB) No.7409 was House Speaker and Leyte 1st district Rep. Martin...
Senator Aquilino Pimentel III on Wednesday, June 22 said the media should keep pressuring incoming Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) Commissioner Lilia Guillermo on the unsettled Marcos estate tax case. ‘’But in the meantime give her some time to act. Let us first wait for her to assume her...
A lawyer of one of the groups that asked for presumptive president Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s disqualification from the 2022 presidential race said that the former senator will be in power to decide on the myriad of issues that face his family, including reparation for the human rights victims during...
Manila Mayor Isko Moreno might be having an “emotional meltdown” as he continues to attack Vice President Leni Robredo after realizing that his dream of becoming the country’s next president seems to be slipping away from him, former Senator Antonio Trillanes IV said on Sunday, April 24....
Party-list group Bayan Muna has filed a resolution initiating a probe into the P203-billion alleged unpaid estate tax of Marcos heirs, to be led by the House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability. Members of the group PRIMO ISKO staged a protest rally in front of the Bureau of...
Retired Supreme Court Justice Antonio Carpio has disputed the claim that the heirs of the late President Ferdinand Marcos cannot be compelled to pay the now P203-billion unpaid estate tax. Retired Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio (1Sambayan/Facebook) "Marcos heirs are liable...
Former Senate President and known Marcos ally Juan Ponce Enrile claims that the P203-billion estate tax issue against the Marcos family is politically-charged especially with Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.'s participation in the Palace race. Former Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile...
Until the end of President Duterte’s term, the current administration will be determined to collect the unpaid estate tax of the heirs of the late former President Ferdinand E. Marcos, the Department of Finance (DOF) said. On the sidelines of the Philippine Economic Briefing on Tuesday, April 5,...
Senator and lawyer Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III asserted on Tuesday that heirs who have delinquent estate must no longer receive their inheritance. In an ANC interview on Tuesday, Pimentel said it was because "theoretically the entire estate of the person who died would have to be surrendered to...
Presidential candidate Senator Panfilo M. Lacson on Monday, April 4 said he would inhibit himself from any Senate investigation into the unpaid P203-billion estate tax on the Marcos family. "Ako, dahil presidential candidate ‘yung involved sa isyu—sabi ko nga kanina—mag-i-inhibit ako sa...
