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                    [ArticleID] => 783490
                    [Title] => We have been consistent on excise tax issue - PMFTC
                    [Summary] => 

PMFTC Inc. said the company has been consistent in supporting  a multi-tiered excise tax structure for cigarettes since 2004.

[DatePublished] => 2012-03-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 232050 [Title] => Booty capitalism [Summary] => In what we call "electoral democracy", the oligarchy perpetuates itself by "investing" in candidates in order to lock in policies favorable to the distortions that mar our economy. These distortions stunt the growth of independent entrepreneurs, raise the costs of doing business in the country, promote unemployment and conserve widespread poverty.
[DatePublished] => 2003-12-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134157 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804783 [AuthorName] => Alex Magno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 229306 [Title] => Bernardo won’t give up BOC post [Summary] => Customs Commissioner Antonio Bernardo doused cold water yesterday on speculations that he would follow the resignation of his former boss Finance Secretary Isidro Camacho, who resigned last Friday.

"As long as I still have the confidence of the President, I will continue to serve her administration and see the completion of my programs in the Bureau of Customs," Bernardo said.

Bernardo said rumors that he would soon be replaced have been circulating ever since. "I have ignored them as they are counterproductive," he added.
[DatePublished] => 2003-11-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1681404 [AuthorName] => Rey Arquiza [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 225044 [Title] => ‘Processing of GSIS loans in full blast’ [Summary] => Government Service Insurance System president and general manager Winston Garcia has ordered all GSIS operating units to fast-track the processing and releasing of all claims and loans to members.

The order came after a meeting called by President Arroyo and attended by Finance Secretary Isidro Camacho, Budget Secretary Emilia Boncodin and Garcia. In the meeting the President made it clear that she disagreed with the suspension of the processing of loans and said at "no time should the GSIS members be inconvenienced even while reforms are being instituted."
[DatePublished] => 2003-10-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 221639 [Title] => 'Camacho awatin sa pangungutang' [Summary] => Iginiit kahapon ni Senadora Tessie Aquino-Oreta sa Malacañang na awatin na si Finance Secretary Isidro Camacho sa walang tigil na pangungutang batay na rin sa babala ng World Bank (WB).

Ikinatwiran ng mambabatas na maging ang International Finance Corporation (IFC), ang investment arm ng WB, ay nagbabalang lalong susubsob ang ekonomiya ng Pilipinas dahil sa tuluy-tuloy na pag-utang nito.

Inirekomenda ng IFC na magpatupad na lamang ng epektibong pagbubuwis ang administrasyong Arroyo upang matugunan ang kinakailangan nito sa pananalapi.
[DatePublished] => 2003-09-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 212929 [Title] => Camacho calls for tax reforms to address budget deficit [Summary] => Finance Secretary Isidro Camacho has presented a "road map to fiscal deliverance," consisting of a package of tax, economic and fiscal reforms, as an alternative to the nation’s "road to crisis."

In a policy address to the Rotary Club of Makati at the Manila Peninsula Hotel in Makati, Camacho discussed the causes of the recurring fiscal deficit, and proposed a package of "policy changes and structural reforms (that) will be needed to bring us back to fiscal balance."
[DatePublished] => 2003-07-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Banking [SectionUrl] => banking [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 210301 [Title] => Government workers assured there will be no mass layoffs [Summary] => Malacañang officials advised government employees yesterday to continue working and avoid rumors that could affect their performance in the wake of reports that 50,000 of them stand to lose their jobs.

Presidential Spokesman Ignacio Bunye belied reports that some 50,000 public employees will lose their jobs due to the government’s streamlining program.

"Let’s just do our work. Iwasan natin itong mga tsismis (Let us avoid these rumors)," he said in a radio interview.
[DatePublished] => 2003-06-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097338 [AuthorName] => Mayen Jaymalin [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 196020 [Title] => FATF tutungo sa Pilipinas [Summary] => Magtutungo sa bansa ang makapangyarihang Financial Action Task Force (FATF) upang tulungan ang Kongreso na mag-draft sa aamyendahang Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA).

Inihayag kahapon ni Speaker Jose de Venecia na hiniling na niya kay Executive Secretary Alberto Romulo na makipag-usap sa international watchdog upang pakiusapang magtungo sa bansa. Posibleng sa susunod na linggo ito dumating.

Inaasahang sisimulan muli ang pag-uusap ng komite sa AMLA sa sandaling aprubahan na rin ng Senado ang resolusyon kaugnay sa rekonsiderasyon ng bicameral conference comittee report. [DatePublished] => 2003-02-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 195911 [Title] => Deadline sa AMLA hanggang Marso 15 [Summary] => Pinagkalooban ng Financial Action Task Force (FATF) ang Pilipinas nang hanggang Marso 15 upang makasunod sa itinakdang standards kaugnay sa ginawang amyenda sa Anti-Money Laundering Law (AMLA) at kung hindi ay papatawan ito ng parusa.

Ayaw nang palalain pa ng Malacañang ang humahabang isyu sa AMLA kaya isang pagpupulong ng joint Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council (LEDAC) ang isasagawa para pag-usapan ito.
[DatePublished] => 2003-02-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 193069 [Title] => DOF orders selection of 2 winners in Napocor insurance policy bidding [Summary] => The Department of Finance (DOF) has issued an order saying that there should be two winning brokers in the public bidding for the $6.5-billion main industrial all-risk policy reinsurance contract off the National Power Corp. (Napocor).

Sources said Finance Secretary Isidro Camacho instructed the bidding committee to select two brokers from the bidders of the contract "to create a competitive environment... allowing for competitive conditions of the reinsurance policy."
[DatePublished] => 2003-01-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097672 [AuthorName] => Ted P. Torres [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
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