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The SGS has billed the National Government about P6.48 billion for services rendered from September 1998, to March 2000.


Finance Secretary Jose Isidro Camacho said government will pay SGS but wants to do so in tranches over a number of years.


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                    [Title] => DOF split over shift to gross income taxation
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Documents supposedly meant to be presented to the Congressional budget hearing this week showed the DOF prepared two versions: The first advocated for the passage of the MGIT and the indexation of so-called "sin taxes" for tobacco and cigarettes and beer and liquor. Indexation means taxes on such products will be adjusted annually based on the inflation rate.


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                    [Title] => Government mulling excise tax on Asian utility vehicles
                    [Summary] => The normally affordable Asian utility vehicles (AUVs) plying Metro Manila’s streets may soon be considered luxury vehicles. That is, if a recent proposal made by some Department of Finance (DOF) officials gets approved.


Sources within the DOF said it has been proposed that excise taxes be levied on AUVs which are now competing with the humble jeepney as the most popular mode of public transportation for Filipinos.


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                    [Title] => Transparency body to be created
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At a press conference in Malacañang yesterday, Mrs. Arroyo said the commission would be set up after outgoing Finance Secretary Alberto Romulo takes over as executive secretary.


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                    [Title] => GMA vetoes 4 Estrada bills
                    [Summary] => President Arroyo has vetoed four Congress-approved pieces of legislation, including a pet bill of her deposed predecessor seeking to reward high-performing revenue collectors.


A total of 131 bills passed by Congress, both of national and local scope, were added to the country’s statutes after they were signed into law or were allowed to lapse into law by Mrs. Arroyo.


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                    [Title] => Arroyo joins 48th RBAP confab
                    [Summary] => President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will be the keynote speaker at the 48th Rural Bankers Association of the Philippines (RBAP) 2001 National Convention on May 24 and 25 at the Westin Philippine Plaza.


Arroyo is expected to stress on the necessity of microfinancing, countryside development, and the role of rural banks in economic recovery. She is likewise expected to stress the importance of not just a sound rural banking sector by the entire banking industry.


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                    [Title] => Camacho vows to continue Romulo’s programs at DOF
                    [Summary] => Incoming Finance Secretary Jose Isidro Camacho vowed yesterday to continue the programs initiated by his predecessor and called on the public to report cases of graft and corruption, especially in the Bureau of Customs (BOC)  and the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR).


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                    [Title] => National Government eyes other sources for $400-M loan
                    [Summary] => The National Government will tap other loan programs, including the World Bank (WB), to replace the $400-million Banking Sector Reform Loan (BSRL) which the Arroyo administration plans to cancel when it expires by the end of June.


Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Rafael Buenaventura said the National Government will just have to look for other funding sources in view of its decision to cancel the remaining $400 million of the $600-million BSRL.


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FINANCE SECRETARY ALBERTO ROMULO

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Sources within the DOF said it has been proposed that excise taxes be levied on AUVs which are now competing with the humble jeepney as the most popular mode of public transportation for Filipinos.


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