Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 09:51:47 +0000
The House of Representatives has approved the Road Board’s abolition and remittance of road user’s tax collection to the National Treasury.
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Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2019 05:48:29 +0000
THE government is considering the use of “special road funds” to finance the cleanup and rehabilitation of Manila Bay, Malacanang said on Tuesday. The use of the road users’ tax…READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2019 10:34:22 +0000
President Rodrigo Duterte wants the almost P30 billion road users’ tax be used for flood control projects in the Bicol region.
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Credit to Author: lalos| Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2018 06:29:58 +0000
President Duterte cursed at the alleged corruption in the Road Board, which overseas funds from road user’s tax.
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Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 21:36:15 +0000
Forty-two members of the House of Representatives, almost all of them allies of President Rodrigo Duterte, and two senators had asked the Road Board for a total of P1.98 billion in funds raised through road user’s tax
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 09:29:38 +0000
House Minority Leader Danilo Suarez has dismissed as a mere “diversion” the claims of former Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez that the attacks of the House against Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno were due to the control over the road user’s tax.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 23:21:24 +0000
The Senate and the House of Representatives appear headed for a showdown in deciding the fate of the graft-tainted Road Board amid allegations that the road user’s tax is P45 billion in pork. “As far as we are concerned, it’s abolished,” Senate President Vicente Sotto III said when asked about the Senate’s position on a […]
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 23:20:02 +0000
The Road Board was established through Republic Act No. 8794 to ensure the efficient management of the motor vehicle user’s charge (MVUC), also known as “road user’s tax.” The tax is collected yearly for the maintenance and improvement of roads, drainage and road safety devices. Created in June 2000, the Road Board is composed of […]
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 06:28:37 +0000
The Senate has adopted a resolution seeking to stop the release of funds from road users’ tax as Congress already abolished the Road Board.
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