best law firms in the philippines | law firms in makati

By: Atty. Xela Leona D. Laqui on September 21,2023 Republic Act (RA) No. 11956 was passed amending RA No. 11213, the Estate Tax Amnesty Act, to extend the period to avail the estate amnesty tax for another two years or until June 14, 2025. Significantly, it also expanded the coverage...

By: Atty. Euney Marie Mata-Perez on September 14,2023 I was just inducted as a member of NOWCD, the NextGen Organization of Women Corporate Directors,  the Philippine chapter of Women Corporate Directors International. Incorporated on September 24, 2021, NOWCD seeks to bring together a trusted community of experienced and engaged directors...

By Euney Marie Mata-Perez on September 7,2023 Republic Act (RA) No. 11954  established the Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF) to strengthen the investment activities of the country’s top-performing government financial institutions and promote economic growth and social development. It was established consistent with laudable State policy to generate, preserve and grow...

By Euney Marie Mata-Perez on August 24, 2023 THE amendments to the National Internal Revenue Code of 1997 (Tax Code), introduced by Republic Act (RA) 11534 (Create) and by RA 10963, or the “Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion” (Train), particularly on the imposition of value-added tax (VAT) on indirect...

By: Atty. Euney Marie Mata-Perez on August 17,2023 IMPROVING board diversity is increasingly seen as contributing to good corporate governance, and its promotion has attracted good governance advocates as well as regulators. There had been studies that suggested that corporate boards structured along demographic diversity, such as gender, age, ethnicity,...

By Euney Marie Mata-Perez on August 3,2023. I WAS invited by the Tax Accountancy Association Union of Chinese Taipei (Taauct) to speak during its Corporate Integrity and Sustainable Development Asia Regional Seminar recently held in Taiwan. Deputy ministers from the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Justice were guest speakers,...

By Stefan Miguel Raymundo Del Rosario on July 13, 2023 THE Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), pursuant to its powers to collect taxes, is empowered to institute criminal prosecution cases, including tax evasion cases, against erring taxpayers for criminal violations under the National Internal Revenue Code of 1997 (Tax Code)....

By Euney Marie Mata-Perez on July 6,2023 SECTION 2 of Republic Act 8799, or the “Philippines’ Securities Regulation Code,” declares that the State shall establish a socially conscious, free market that regulates itself, encourage the widest participation of ownership in enterprises, enhance democratization of wealth, promote the development of the...

By Nica Marsha Gasapo on June 22,2023 THE board of directors of a corporation is the seat of corporate power. Under the law, the board is clothed with authority to exercise the corporate powers, conduct all business and control all properties of the corporation. The election of the members of...