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With more than 20,000 registered non-government organizations and foundations, it will be difficult for the Securities and Exchange Commission to determine which ones were used to illegally funnel billions from the Priority Development Assistance Fund or pork barrel to personal accounts.

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A Quezon City court has temporarily stopped the imposition of the 12 percent value added tax (VAT) on raw sugar as it hears the petition of sugar millers for the nullification of an internal revenue regulation ordering such.

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Among the numerous non-government organizations that were recipients of lawmakers’ Priority Development Assistance Fund, 82 were questionable, according to the head of the Commission on Audit, Ma. Gracia Pulido-Tan.

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A Quezon City court has temporarily stopped the imposition of the 12 percent value added tax (VAT) on raw sugar as it hears the petition of sugar millers for the nullification of an internal revenue regulation ordering such.

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