PH to miss targets in 2019, 2020, says S&P Global Ratings

Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 05:36:37 +0000

THE Philippine economic growth will fall below official targets this year and the next on the back of high interest rates and weak external demand, S&P Global Ratings said. In…READ

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Duterte vetoed tax amnesty over absence of measures to ‘break walls of bank secrecy’–Dominguez

Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2019 08:04:29 +0000

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte vetoed the general tax amnesty provision under the Tax Amnesty Act because of the absence of measures that would “break the walls of bank secrecy,” Finance Secretary…READ

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Diokno a no-show at House budget probe anew 

Credit to Author: MAYVELIN U. CARABALLO, TMT| Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 02:56:25 +0000

BUDGET Secretary Benjamin Diokno backpedalled on his decision to attend the hearing of the House of Representatives’  Committee on Appropriations today, Friday, on the supposedly anomalous budget allocations. In a…READ

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Diokno welcomes House subpoena as ‘opportunity to clarify budget process’

Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 02:34:55 +0000

BUDGET Secretary Benjamin Diokno welcomed the subpoena issued against him by the House of Representatives’ Committee on Appropriations. “Given these facts and the misconceptions about the (budget) process, we take…READ

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