A day after being chided by a “shocked” President Benigno Aquino III about the incredibly low taxes—or sometimes none at all—that affluent Filipino-Ch
Read MorePRESIDENT Aquino on Friday chided Filipino-Chinese businessmen who do not pay the correct taxes or do not pay any income tax at all. Mr. Aquino, wh
Read MoreFORMER SENATOR Ramon Magsaysay, Jr. is correct in asserting that the Philippines is "poised for growth in mobile commerce," and it is safe to presume
Read MoreLast week, the Department of Social Welfare and Development reported to the public that the conditional cash transfer program (Pantawid Pamilyang Pili
Read MoreRepublic Act No. 10372, signed on February 28, 2013, amends certain provisions of Republic Act No. 8293, otherwise known as the Intellectual Prope
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Read MoreMANILA, Philippines --- Congress is committed to the removal of “structural impediments” to investments and encourages aggress
Read MoreKey economic bills to shore up government revenues are being readied by the Aquino administration for approval by the 16th Congr
Read MoreFormer President Fidel V. Ramos on Tuesday called for a constitutional change that will open the country to more foreign investm
Read MoreMANILA - The Philippines will start talks for a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union (EU) next month,
Read MoreMANILA - The government is eyeing a "less negative" Foreign Investment Negative List (FINL) through legislation that the Department of T
Read MoreMANILA - The government has made inroads at improving the business environment and growing the economy, but further reforms ha
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - The country’s growth is on the right track but much remains to be done, including by Congress, to make sure the ec
Read MoreDepartment of Trade and Industry officials will likely confer the European Union early March on moving forward the ongoing proce
Read More“Unfortunately, it’s really difficult to get the bureaucracy to work on all of these details, as anybody who has tried to lead a change
Read MoreTHE GOVERNMENT has already tackled more than half, or 65 percent, of the reforms proposed by foreign businessmen to help the P
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines – The conditions laid down by the Aquino administration in its policy on mining keeps the industry at a standstill,
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines – The total value of smuggling in the Philippines amounts to $20 billion per year, according to former Fin
Read MoreTHE GOVERNMENT last year moved on more reforms prescribed by the Joint Foreign Chambers of the Philippines (JFC) in December 2010, according to
Read MoreTHE government must immediately focus on plugging what former Finance Secretary Roberto de Ocampo described as a gaping “smuggling hole”
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