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The Bureaus of Internal Revenue (BIR) and of Customs (BOC) are set to forge an agreement on information sharing and coordination, among other ways of cooperation, to strengthen their joint campaign against smuggling and beef up collections on excise taxes on imports.

Filipino women remain sorely underrepresented in the highest positions in both the government and industry, where the most important policies are decided.

Brigada Eskwela is once again a byword while the culmination of the school year 2017- 2018 is about to come. But what is Brigada Eskwela?

Investment projects approved by the Philippine Board of Investments (BOI) in January to February 2018 continue to surge as the premier investment promotion agency recorded P131.6 billion worth of projects, up by 402.3 percent compared to the same period last year.

The Food Development Center (FDC) of the National Food Authority (NFA) is set to conduct a training course on the “Basic Sensory Evaluation for Food Testing and Product Development” on April 17-20, 2018 from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm at the FDC Compound, Food Terminal Inc. (FTI) Complex, Taguig City.

While much has been done to boost disaster preparedness in the country, the country still lags behind in the aspect of post-disaster reconstruction, a study published by state think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) revealed.

Officials of the National Economic Development Authority (Neda), Department of Finance (DOF), Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), and the country’s leading economists attending the meeting of the Senate Committee on Economic Affairs, led by Sen. Win Gatchalian, were in consensus that several factors have pushed inflation up in January, and the tax reform that has recently taken effect has little …

The government of the Philippines and Japan signed a 9.399-billion yen (amounting to approximately $89 million or 4.25 billion) loan agreement for the construction of the third phase of the Arterial Road Bypass Project that is designed to ease traffic congestion in Bulacan and spur economic growth in the province’s rural areas.

Total actual excise tax collections for January 2018 reached P22.078 billion, or over 7.7 percent of the goal of P20.501 billion for that month and 81.69 percent higher compared to the P12.152 billion tax take in the same period last year, according to the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR).

Influential thinkers in the fields of international economics, history and digital technology are set to speak on global economic trends that will shape the world’s future during a forum to be hosted by the Philippines this May in a runup to the 51st Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Manila.