House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) The House Committee on Appropriations will start scrutinizing the budgets of the individual agencies this week as the hearings on the P5.768-trillion National Expenditure Program (NEP) for 2024 goes into high...
DOF Secretary Benjamin Diokno The value-added tax (VAT) being imposed in the Philippines is "under review". Thus, bared Department of Finance (DOF) Secretary Benjamin Diokno before the House Committee on Appropriations Thursday, Aug. 10, on the first day of...
(MANILA BULLETIN) The service provider tapped by Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) only managed to produce 36 million physical national identification cards (ID), roughly a third of its target of 92 million. House Committee on Appropriations Senior Vice...
DBM Secretary Amenah Pangandaman (Screenshot from YouTube) Government employees may yet be granted a salary increase next year, with the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) setting aside almost P17 billion for this possibility. DBM Secretary Amenah Pangandaman...
DBM Secretary Amenah Pangandaman (Screenshot from YouTube) The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has told the various agencies in government that have low obligation rates in connection with the P5.268-trillion national budget this year to submit their...
Albay 1st district Rep. Edcel Lagman (Screenshot from YouTube live) The national government's total expenditure on debt for next year will reach P1.939 trillion, or a whopping 33 percent of the P5.768-trillion National Expenditure Program (NEP). ...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (Facebook) House Speaker Martin Romualdez reiterated on Thursday, Aug. 10 his promise of an expeditious passage of the 2024 national budget. This, after the House of Representatives--through the Committee on...
A sample copy of a PhiID card (MB File Photo) Senator Francis Escudero on Wednesday, August 9 said he will ask the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) and the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) for “quantifiable targets” when they come to the Senate for the 2024 national budget...
(MANILA BULLETIN) The House Committee on Appropriations will formally begin to tackle the P5.768-trillion National Expenditure Program (NEP) on Thursday, Aug. 10 when it hosts the Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC) for a briefing on the 2024 spending...
(Unsplash) A budget of P2.5 billion has been earmarked for the national government's free Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) program for the year 2024. This was learned following the Department of Budget and Management's (DBM) submission of the P5.768-trillion National Expenditure...
(Unsplash) Here's a not-so-fun fact: the Philippine government will have to "borrow" around P4 billion a day based on its 2024 National Expenditure Program (NEP) or proposed national budget. House Deputy Speaker and Batangas 6th district Rep. Ralph Recto explains...
(MANILA BULLETIN) House Deputy Speaker and Batangas 6th district Rep. Ralph Recto hailed on Saturday, Aug. 5 the "unprecedented" P5-billion increase in the budget for the government’s child feeding program for the year 2024. In a statement, Recto noted...
