After the decline in 2023, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) net income surged by ₱91.1 billion last year, reaching ₱117.6 billion, driven by higher revenues and lower expenses. Last year’s income was 344 percent or more than four times larger than the central bank’s ₱26.5-billion...
The Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) has ordered a businessman to pay the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) P6.6 million in deficiency income and value-added taxes of his company for calendar year 2016. Redentor Agpuldo Tagala, proprietor of 7th Concept Trading and 7C Construction, filed a petition for...
Ayala-led ACEN Corp. reported an increase in its net income for last year on the back of growing renewable energy (RE) output. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange on Wednesday, March 12, ACEN reported a 27 percent rise in net income to ₱9.36 billion from January to December 2024,...
Elections and related spending no longer provide the same economic boost as they once did. As a result, an economist at Ateneo de Manila University expects the Philippine economy to grow below goal this year, despite the upcoming midterm elections in May. Luis Dumlao, associate professor and senior...
Aboitiz Power Corp. (AboitizPower) announced that its net income grew marginally in 2024 despite the performance of its unit GNPower Dinginin Ltd. Co. (GNPD). In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange on Friday, March 7, AboitizPower noted a two percent increase in its net income from...
Ramon Ang-led oil firm Petron Corporation has reported a 16 percent year-on-year drop in its net income to ₱8.47 billion in 2024. In a statement on Tuesday, March 4, Petron noted that its operating income declined to ₱29.2 billion last year from ₱30.7 billion in 2023. Its revenues, on the...
President Marcos’ chief economic manager stated that he expects an additional P300 billion to be injected into the government’s treasury over the next five years following the planned revision of existing passive income tax law. Department of Finance (DOF) Secretary Ralph G. Recto, during...
Japan will help the Philippines achieve its ambition to become an upper middle-income economy through sustained official development assistance (ODA), according to Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) president Akihiko Tanaka. At an online press briefing commemorating JICA's 70th...
The World Bank is crafting its lending plan for the Philippines covering the years 2025 to 2028, the period during which the country will likely rise to upper middle-income status and gradually lose access to preferential borrowing rates. The World Bank Group Philippines Country Partnership...
With additional revenues to be drawn from geothermal assets that are coming on commercial stream, Lopez-led First Gen Corporation is expecting overall profit boost this year, according to a top executive of the company. First President and COO Francis Giles B. Puno indicated that at least 83...
With leaner aggregate revenues logged in the six-month stretch, the net income of Alsons Consolidated Resources Inc. (ACR) in the first half had declined by roughly 10% to P1.06 billion from the year-ago level of P1.17 billion. If reckoned solely on second quarter performance, the company’s...
Owing primarily to favorable outcome of its better inventory holdings, major oil firm Shell Pilipinas Corporation posted significant hike of 1,320 percent in its first half net income to P1.7 billion from relatively lean profit of P123 million in the same period last year. The company indicated...
