By: Mark Anthony Tamayo on September 6, 2018 One of the main tasks of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) is to exercise, directly or indirectly, any customs power, duties and functions for the effective implementation of the Customs Modernization and Tariff Act (CMTA) and other customs...

        By: Euney Marie J. Mata-Perez on August 30. 2018 The Revised Corporation Code (RCC) proposed under Senate Bill No. 1280 continues to impose the duties of diligence, loyalty and obedience upon directors, trustees and officers of corporations. Thus, it continues to uphold...

        By: Euney Marie J. Mata-Perez on August 23, 2018 To date, our Tax Code doesn’t contain general anti-tax avoidance rules or general principles or rules to check potential tax avoidance in general. The “Tax Reform for Acceleration of Better and High-quality Opportunities”...

By: Euney Marie Mata-Perez on August 16, 2018 The Senate finally approved on third reading Senate Bill 1280 (SB 1280) which, once passed into law, introduces major amendments to our existing Corporation Code (Batas Pambansa Blg. 68) passed 38 years ago in 1980. It’s thus worth noting the significant...

        By: Euney Marie J. Mata-Perez on August 9, 2018 As a general rule, corporate officers are not liable for a corporation’s liabilities because of the legal fiction that corporate entities have legal personality separate from the individuals that comprise it. Obligations...

By: Bernadette E. Tamayo on July 29, 2018 TAXPAYERS would enjoy the benefits of the taxes being collected from them if the government would further broaden the tax base and collect more revenues for infrastructure and social services programs, a tax lawyer said on Saturday.   TRAIN TALK Euvimil...

By: Richelle Dianne R. Patawaran on July 26, 2018 The Data Privacy Act of 2012 (DPA) prohibits the processing of “personal information” except when certain conditions exist. Thus, personal information controllers have been very cautious in releasing information, such as lists of names, etc., in fear...

By: Mark Anthony Tamayo on July 19, 2018 It’s common for regular importers to be oblivious of the mistakes and errors in the details of particulars of their previously filed goods declarations relative to their past shipments of goods into the country. Importers generally consider their declarations...

By: Samantha Poblacion on July 12, 2018 The recognition of mental health as a basic human right in the Philippines finally came to pass after the Philippine Mental Health Law (Republic Act No. 11036, or RA 11036) was signed into law on June 21, 2018. The bill was pending in Congress for almost 20...