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DTI wants at least $1 billion threshold for FIRB review

By Louella Desiderio | October 1, 2019 - 12:00am

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is proposing to set a threshold on the amount of investments for projects that would have to go through the Fiscal Incentives Review Board (FIRB) to secure tax perks under...

Business

‘Gov’t lost P15.1 B due to tax exemptions to importers’

By Michael Punongbayan | January 11, 2014 - 12:00am

The government lost more than P15.1 billion in revenues due to questionable grant of tax exemptions to private importers of rice, sugar and corn from 2008 to 2012, a Commission on Audit (COA) report released Wednesday...

Headlines

NFA: P95 M saved in Viet rice deal

September 5, 2013 - 12:00am

The National Food Authority (NFA) has clarified that contrary to reports, not a single centavo was lost but it instead managed to save some P95.45 million from the 205,700 metric tons (MT) of rice that it imported...

Nation

Phl rice tender tentatively set for 3rd week of March

By Louella Desiderio | March 9, 2012 - 12:00am

The Philippines may start the tender for 500,000 metric tons (MT) of rice imports in the third week of the month if the tax expenditure subsidy (TES) to be used for the shipments would be approved within the week,...

Business

NFA to start tender for 660,000-MT rice import

By Marianne V. Go | March 8, 2011 - 12:00am

The National Food Authority (NFA) plans to start this month its tender for the importation of 660,000 metric tons of rice, administrator Angelito Banayo said.

Business

Philippines to maintain 30-day rice stockpile

By Marianne V. Go | March 8, 2011 - 12:00am

The National Food Authority (NFA) plans to start this month its tender for the importation of 660,000 metric tons of rice, administrator Angelito Banayo said.

Business

Rice supply good for 103 days

By Marianne V. Go | March 3, 2011 - 12:00am

The country’s rice supply as of Feb. 25 stands at 3.195 million metric tons which can feed the entire population by over a hundred days, National Food Authority (NFA) administrator Angelito Banayo said ye...

Business

DOF nixes bid to exempt PhilRice from taxes

By Iris Gonzales | May 25, 2009 - 12:00am

MANILA, Philippines - The government is not in favor of granting tax exemptions to state-owned Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) as proposed by several lawmakers at the House of Representatives.

Business

Gov't extends P23 B in subsidies to NFA

By Iris Gonzales | September 22, 2008 - 12:00am

The government has extended P23 billion in subsidies to state-owned National Food Authority (NFA) during the first eight months of this year for the grains agency’s operations.

Business

Angara backs plan to cut subsidies to NFA

By Iris Gonzales | September 12, 2008 - 12:00am

Sen. Edgardo Angara has expressed support to the government’s plan of cutting the subsidies given to the National Food Authority (NFA), the state grains agency.

Business