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DOJ: PWDs can claim full discount on group meals if for personal consumption

By Ian Laqui | October 14, 2024 - 6:59pm

Persons with disabilities (PWDs) can still avail themselves of the 20% discount and value-added tax exemption on food purchases...

Headlines

Sri Lanka raises taxes ahead of foreign debt deal

January 1, 2024 - 2:39pm

Sri Lanka slapped a new 18% value added tax on fuel, mobile phones and computers from Monday to raise desperately needed revenue...

Business

Senator mulls VAT refund for foreign tourists to boost visitor arrivals

May 20, 2023 - 5:34pm

A senator is proposing a value-added tax refund mechanism for foreign tourists to "boost visitor arrivals in the Philippines,"...

Headlines

Dagdag-buwis ­pahirap, pero ‘pag sa bisyo pasarap!

By Kokoy Alano | May 5, 2023 - 12:00am

PINAPALAGAN ng online sellers ang ikinakasang paniningil ng gobyerno para sa karagdagang Value Added Tax dahil ang tingin nila ay double taxation daw ito.

Punto Mo

Bawas buwis: 4 'anti-VAT' bills inihain uli ng Makabayan bloc sa Kamara

By James Relativo | November 10, 2022 - 12:42pm

Upang makaagapay ang Filipino consumers sa bilis ng pagtaas ng presyo ng bilihin buhat ng 7.7% inflation rate at COVID-19...

Bansa

Digital transactions papatawan ng VAT

By Gemma Garcia | August 5, 2022 - 12:00am

Naghain ng panukalang batas si Senador Pia Cayetano, naglalayon na patawan ng Value Added Tax ang lahat na  digital transaction.

Police Metro

Attributable vs directly attributable

By Rocres Jeawel B. Jaramillo | April 19, 2022 - 12:00am

The Value Added Tax was first implemented in the Philippines in 1988 and has been one of the structural reforms provided under the 1986 Tax Reform Program designed to simplify tax administration and make the tax...

Business

More anti-diabetes, cholesterol drugs to be VAT-exempt

By Mayen Jaymalin | May 24, 2019 - 12:00am

More drugs for diabetes, high cholesterol and hypertension are set to be exempted from value added tax (VAT).

Headlines

EDITORYAL - Babala sa mga may-ari ng botika

January 20, 2019 - 12:00am

MARAMING Pilipino ang may hypertension, diabetes at high cholesterol. At pabata nang pabata ang mga nagkakasakit. Ayon sa...

Punto Mo

House panel tackles scrapping of fuel tax hike

By Jess Diaz | December 6, 2018 - 12:00am

Lawmakers yesterday began tackling measures scrapping taxes on oil products or at least suspending some of them, with opposition...

Headlines