KORONADAL CITY — The Department of Agriculture in Region 12 (DA-12) is pushing front yard landscaping in urban areas using vegetables.
Jul 102014
Jul 092014
IN ITS EFFORT to decongest the ports of Manila, the government has approved a 90%-discount incentive on docking fees for all vessels that will call on Batangas, and agreed with foreign shipping lines to make Subic Bay ports the temporary depots for containers.
Jul 092014
CITIES WERE AGAIN the target of Department of Finance’s (DoF) Tax Watch campaign, with poor revenue administration efforts tagged to have stalled local government units’ (LGU) capacity to raise funds to send more children to public schools.
Jul 092014
IN THE recently issued Revenue Memorandum Circular (RMC) No. 46-2014, the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) clarified that a financial lease is essentially a mode of extending credit, and is therefore subject to documentary stamp tax (DST) as a loan and not as a lease. Generally, a lease is an agreement whereby a person (lessor) binds himself to give a property to another — (lessee) for use and enjoyment for a certain period of time in return for rental payments.
Jul 082014
THE CLOCK is ticking for a landmark global move to cut poverty and improve the lot of the world’s poorest, and while some targets have been achieved, much remains to be done until the concerted effort formally ends next year, according to the latest assessment the United Nations (UN) released on Monday.
Jul 082014
CEBU CITY — The Visayas’ premier economic hub is looking at more land infrastructure to support surging business activity, Cebu Governor Hilario P. Davide III said in his State of the Province Address last Monday.
Jul 082014
IN ORDER to ensure adequate water supply in prospective tourism areas — including some of the poorest in the country — the government, through the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), has released P1.73 billion to the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to implement relevant projects nationwide, according to a DBM statement yesterday.
Jul 072014
MANUFACTURING, agribusiness and fishery, services, energy, public infrastructure and logistics, as well as public-private partnership projects are among the sectors included in the 2014 Investment Priorities Plan (IPP) the Trade department intends to submit to Malacañang this month for approval, a senior official confirmed to reporters yesterday.
Jul 072014
THE SHARE of electronics to the total overseas sales of Philippine goods fell last year even as they remained the country’s top export product, according to data the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) released earlier.
Jul 072014
WE typically associate “pension plans” with something positive and forward-looking — financial security upon retirement, benefits to senior citizens, and tax-exempt benefits. The last one is not always correct.