The Department of Finance (DOF) and the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) should give lawmakers their proposals on how poll workers, including public school teachers, can receive the full amount of their honoraria, allowances, and other benefits, Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian said on Tuesday. Gatchalian,...
The Department of Finance (DOF) on Thursday said it does not support the measures that seek to provide a tax exemption for teachers and other personnel who would render services during elections. The DOF made their position known at the Senate Committee on Ways and Means hearing on the various...
Senators are throwing their support on proposals seeking to exempt from income tax all election honoraria and allowances of persons rendering services during elections. Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian, author of Senate Bill No. 1193, said public school teachers who are required to render poll duties during...
Reelectionist Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Tuesday, April 12 vowed to pursue the enactment of his bill that would grant tax exemption on the honoraria, travel allowance, and other benefits of poll workers, including teachers, officials, and personnel of the Department of Education (DepEd). The...
Presidential candidate Senator Panfilo M. Lacson on Thursday, April 7 supported calls to exempt teachers’ election honoraria from taxes. ‘’It is the least that the government can give them as incentive for the extra and thankless - yet patriotic - duty,’’ Lacson said in a statement....
Education Secretary Leonor Magtolis Briones expressed her gratitude to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for granting the increase of the honorarium of the members of electoral boards which will be composed of teachers. (ALI VICOY / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) “I would like to express our...
The Department of Education (DepEd) expressed optimism that the teachers who will serve as Electoral Board (EB) and poll workers in the upcoming 2022 national and local elections will receive higher honoraria amid the public health situation in the country. JOJO RINOZA / FILE PHOTO / MANILA...
The House of Representatives voted unanimously for the third and final reading approval of a bill that will exempt from income tax the honoraria, allowances and other financial benefits received by election workers. Poll workers Authored by members of the Makabayan bloc and Nueva Vizcaya Rep. Luisa...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has nodded to the Department of Education’s (DepEd) request to increase the honoraria of teaching and non-teaching personnel who will serve during the 2022 national and local elections. (Photo from DepEd/Manila Bulletin/File Photo) Education Secretary Leonor...
