Solons agree to exempt workers earning P250T, below from income tax
MANILA – The Senate on Wednesday increased the personal income tax exemption to P250,000, essentially retaining the original proposal of the Department of Finance...
Tax reform burden to Filipinos, warns solon
BY PRINCE GOLEZ, Manila Reporter
WIKIMEDIA
A vendor arranges the products she’s selling at her sari-sari store. The proposed tax reform pushed by the Duterte administration includes...
Metro Supermarket Atria rains fun, prizes in 1st anniversary blowout
CELEBRATING its first year in the City of Love, Metro Supermarket Atria brought some fun and excitement to its anniversary blowout by raining down...
5,000 BPO jobs up for grabs at city job fair
VERA FILES
Call center agents are seen busy on the floor of a business process outsourcing (BPO) company in Iloilo City. Some 52 BPO companies will...
Local farmers’ org cited in Top 5 PH social enterprises
BY: ROEYNA MAY FAMISARAN
DA
Joby Arandela (right) of Zarraga Integrated Diversified Organic Farmers Association (ZIDOFA) with Department of Agriculture secretary Manny Piñol during the turnover...
The trail of conquerors
By Leah P. Fajardo
MORE than 300 runners conquered “The Path of Most Resistance” in the first ever Iloilo Salomon X-Trail Run held in the...
BSP chief confident of further rise in PH GDP
AP
Motorists are seen navigating a busy intersection along Makati Avenue in Metro Manila’s central financial and business district.
MANILA – Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP)...
‘Expect riveting growth in succeeding quarters’
AP
Filipino workers balance on a crane at the construction site of a commercial high-rise in Metro Manila.
MANILA – As the Philippine economy grew above...
PH seen to remain fastest– growing economy in ASEAN
PCOO
President Rodrigo Duterte and leaders and representatives of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states do the traditional ASEAN handshake as they...
Econ growth accelerates, outdoes estimates for Q3
REUTERS
Laborers work at a construction site of a new expressway in Metro Manila, as motorists pass by below them.
MANILA – The economy grew 6.9...