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MM workers get pay hike

By Mayen Jaymalin | March 18, 2015 - 12:00am

The Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) has approved a new wage order granting a P15 hike in the daily...

Metro

Noy signs into law higher tax exemption cap on bonuses

By Aurea Calica | February 13, 2015 - 12:00am

President Aquino has signed into law the bill granting higher tax exemption for Christmas bonus and other benefits.

Headlines

Gov’t sees more minimum wage earners owning homes

By Mayen Jaymalin | April 28, 2013 - 12:00am

More minimum wage earners nationwide could buy and own a house and lot with an array of non-wage benefits the government is offering to workers as a Labor Day gift.

Headlines

EDITORIAL - Promise of no new taxes was a lie

July 21, 2011 - 12:00am

When Noynoy Aquino was sworn in as president, he promised no new taxes, in keeping with the pro-poor image he was trying to project then.

Freeman Opinion

A way of giving hope to a firm's wage earners

By The Ear | June 4, 2011 - 12:00am

GRAND LOTTO. The general manager of a private firm here bought 15 grand lotto tickets (jackpot expected to hit more than P250 million) for distribution to as many wage earners in his company.

Freeman Opinion

The inequity in the tax system on individual taxpayers needs reforms

March 30, 2011 - 12:00am

The concern over bridging the gap between the rich and the poor has always been in the development agenda of every Philippine Government since poverty incidence in the country is one of the highest in Asia.

Letters to the Editor

LOCAL NEWS: Workers reject 6-month tax exemption for minimum wage earners

By Mayen Jaymalin | October 6, 2008 - 4:32pm

Workers nationwide just won’t accept anything less than a full-year tax exemption. The country’s largest ...

Roxas questions BIR on tax exemption period

September 28, 2008 - 12:00am

CEBU - To give justice to more than 500,000 minimum wage earners nationwide, Sen. Mar Roxas filed a petition the other ...

Cebu News

DOF issues rules on minimum wage tax exemption

By Iris Gonzales | September 26, 2008 - 12:00am

The Department of Finance (DOF) has issued the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of Republic Act 9504 or the law ...

Business

Minimum wage earners' extra income taxable - DOF

By Iris Gonzales | September 23, 2008 - 12:00am

The Department of Finance (DOF) wants minimum wage earners to pay taxes for income generated outside their regular earnings. Officials ...

Business