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QUEZON City, Philippines (January 10) – As of January of 2016, the total population of the Philippines reached 101,498,763 and the Bureau of Internal Revenue Deputy Commissioner for Operations, Nelson Aspe noted that thirty percent or thirty million of which are registered taxpayers. Taxes serve as the main source of our country’s revenue. Individual tax – along with other forms of taxes – is the fuel used by the Philippine government to support each and every […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – President-elect Rodrigo Duterte has said he planned to enact the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill to give the media access to certain documents. According to Martin Andanar, the incoming chief of the Presidential Communications Operations Office, Duterte will issue an executive order on the FOI bill to ensure government transparency. Andanar assured members of the press that they would get access to the President, who would try to be transparent as […]
SAN Juan, Metro Manila (Eagle News) – In her Independence Day speech in the Pinaglabanan Shrine, Senator Grace Poe said that the Filipinos are not fully free when there is no transparency in government transactions. According to the senator, this is the reason why the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill should be passed. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Dexter Magno, Vince Alvin Villarin)
MANILA, Philippines- Manolo Quezon, officer of Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning, will announce and explain the version of Malacanang’s Freedom of Information Bill to the House Committee on Information. According to Honorable George Taghap Almonte, Congressman of First District in Misamis Occidental and chairman of the committee, they are planning to discuss the issue at the plenary by March. In the meantime, Almonte is convinced that if someone violates the FOI Law, that person […]
