Senator Joel Villanueva has appealed to the executive department to consider a promotion of the salary grade of public nurses. media The chairman of the Senate labor committee made the call as he hailed on Monday, June 7, Malacañang’s reversal of a Department of Budget and Management (DBM)...
Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri on Monday, June 7, expressed support for the passage of the bill seeks to correct the Bureau of Internal Revenue's (BIR) supposed misinterpretation of the law modifying taxes imposed on private educational institutions. Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Saturday, June 5, called on the Senate to exercise its oversight function and look into the Bureau of Internal Revenue's (BIR) regulation seeking to increase the tax rate of private schools. Senator Sherwin Gatchalian during a special session in the Senate on March 23,...
Various private education stakeholders have appealed to President Duterte to intervene as they seek to reverse the provisions in the revenue regulation of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) which seeks to increase the tax rate of private schools. (PIXABAY / MANILA BULLETIN) A petition signed by...
Senators have called on the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to rescind its regulation that increasing the tax rate on schools to 25 percent. Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto and Senator Joel Villanueva referred to the BIR's Revenue Regulation 5-2021...
President Duterte has signed the law giving him the power to defer the increases in contributions of the Social Security System (SSS) for the duration of the State of Calamity. President Duterte (File photo/Malacañang) Republic Act (RA) No. 11548 amended section 4(a)(9) of RA 11199 or the Social...
Amid the dwindling capacity of hospitals and shortage of nurses in the country, the Philippine Hospital Association (PHA) on Wednedsay, May 19, reiterated its appeal for reinforcement from nurses employed in government agencies who are doing "non-nursing jobs". (Jansen Romero/MANILA BULLETIN FIle...
Kim Rodriguez made huge noise on social media recently uploading several photos of her in a bikini. View this post on Instagram While there are those who commended her effort, there are some who thought it unbecoming. Apparently, many thought it preposterous for the actress to climb a mountain...
Despite stifled demand because of the re-imposition of enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in the so-called NCR plus bubble, prices in the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) have been hitting record-spikes in recent trading days because of the combined impact of simultaneous power plant...
As consumers complain of dizzying hikes in oil prices, or at times, unsatisfied at the amount of rollbacks in recent weeks, the oil companies are consequentially suspect of profit-taking. The deregulation of the downstream oil industry is already traversing roughly 23 years -- yet the fires of...
Big-time fuel price hikes of as much as P1.30 per liter are expected next week following further rally in the world market prices. Based on the initial calculation of the oil companies, the biggest price hikes will be felt on diesel products at the range of P1.25 to P1.30 per liter; while kerosene...
As international prices hit new historic-high of $60 per barrel, pump prices are anticipated to go up between P0.85 to P1.05 per liter across products. Based on the initial...
