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THE BUREAU of Internal Revenue (BIR) continuously enhances and develops electronic services (e-Services) to provide faster, more reliable and more convenient services for taxpayers, as well as to improve its tax return data capture and storage. Last Oct. 16, 2012, the BIR authorized the use of the electronic BIR Forms (eBIRForms) through Revenue Memorandum Circular No. (RMC) 061-12. The eBIRForm is a better, more reliable alternative to the manual process of filling tax returns on pre-printed forms because it allows taxpayers to directly encode data, compute taxes, validate information, save progress, and print the tax returns offline.

DISAGGREGATED data show that the country may not actually be experiencing jobless economic growth, a report from the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) said.

INTERNATIONAL DONORS can now refer to a set of rules when securing duty and tax exemptions for their donations during calamities in the country.

THE DEPARTMENT of Budget and Management (DBM) has released P7.68 billion to the National Electrification Administration (NEA) to energize rural communities throughout the country.