SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga — Officials of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) based in Central Luzon and other parts of the country urged the government over the weekend to double the number of the agency’s tax investigators in order to deter unscrupulous taxpayers from cheating on their tax payments,
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ROXAS CITY (PNA) — The country is losing some P84 billion in revenues due to widespread smuggling of goods into the country, Senator Mar Roxas, chair of the senate committees on trade and commerce and on economic affairs, revealed over the weekend.
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Illegal loggers on the roll?
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MANDAUE CITY, Cebu — The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said yesterday one of the eight foreigners arrested when authorities raided a multi-billion-peso clandestine shabu laboratory in barangay Umapad, this city is the head of a transnational drug syndicate based in Hong Kong.
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GENERAL SANTOS CITY — Policemen and Army troops have fanned out to rebel-infested areas in Alabel, capital town of Sarangani, to pursue communist insurgents who seized a truck owned by a trader in that town.
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ANGELES CITY — City Councilor Jay Sangil has sought the closure of a firm in the Nepo Mall here for allegedly defrauding credit card holders of big sums of money in exchange of "high-priced" but poor-quality household appliances and kitchen wares.
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