Why P12.7 billion in excise taxes from coal mining is unpaid?

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A large mining company  has been flagged by a former DOF official not paying the said amount?  Why because from PD 972 to the RA  109631  (Section 151).   The said law  does not contain repealing provision  (The official surmised that a corrupt official had the boiler plate provision usually placed in legislation had this provision removed  Can we amend the to regularize the law)

Section 48. Section 151 of the NIRC, as amended,is hereby further amended to read as follows:

"Sec. 151. Mineral Products -

"(A) Rates of Tax. - There shall be levied, assessed and collected on minerals, mineral products and quarry resources, excise tax as follows:

"(1) On domestic or imported coal and coke, notwithstanding any incentives granted in any law or special law:

"Effective January 1, 2018, Fifty pesos (₱50.00) per metric ton;

"Effective January 1, 2019, One hundred pesos (₱100.00) per metric ton; and

"Effective January 1, 2020, One hundred fifty pesos {₱150.00) per metric ton.

"(2) On all nonmetallic minerals and quarry resources, a tax of four percent (4%) based on the actual market value of the gross output thereof at the time of removal, in the case of those locally extracted or produced; or the value used by the Bureau of Customs in determining tariff and customs duties, net of excise tax and value-added tax in the case of importation.

"x x x:

That is a lot of money   Perhaps if the said company believed in nation building and its leader should think that we actually own nothing and we are simply stewards of Gods creation then that taxes should be paid   Some rabbi say that doing this runs counter to the Lords intention and whatever the companyowns may be taken away.  It is truly right and just.  Some of the leaders of the company are our friends.  

In the GSB we were taught that cheating the people and govt of taxes is not the right way to earn money.   Or underpaying suppliers and workers

No repealing clause   (May amendment kunware Sec 3 of PD 972 but not the taxation part)

Section 86. Repealing Clause. - The following laws or provisions of laws are hereby repealed and the persons and/or transactions affected herein are made subject to the VAT provision of Title IV of the NIRC, as amended:

(a) Section 3 of Presidential Decree (P.D.). 1972, s. 1985, as amended, Sections 4 and 5 of Executive Order No. (E.O.) 1057, s. 1985, and Section 4 of E.O. 1064, s. 1985, insofar as the VAT tax exemption and tax credit is concerned;

Repealing clauses absent

 (the legislator may have been rewarded well to have the repealing clause deleted

Why can oil companies raise prices on old stocks inventories?

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 DOE said that this allowed under the oil deregulation law that allows oil companies to recover prices of new inventories at much bigger price.

In the hearing conducted at Senate (at which  Sen Marcoleta walked out) he pointed out that  at current fuel usage at 900,000,000 liters per month and at P70.00 price increase, this amounts to   P63 billion or about  P2.1 gross profit per day.    While this is good for the businesses, it is bad for the entire country (which is the objective of the solons)   Is there no check and balance in the oil deregulation

The good senator thinks that this is impoverishing many Filipinos and can be likened to the maleta scandal   

The SP was asked what should be included if the oil deregulation was to be amended and his reply was not clear.   

Why worry about an oil/energy crisis? Pres says we have enough supply

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The President says we have enough supply.  It is important for the President to say  this to soothe and calm nerves of nervous citizens

HIdden Philippines. Tribal Filipinos exhibited at Lousiana Purchase Exhibition in 1904 - human zoo

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In 1904 Filipinos  were exhibited  as an oddity in Louisiana Purchase exposition.     To show life in the Philippines that we deserved to be colonized.     Filipino reservation 47 acres.   Over 1000...

How sad and how cruel...

Filipino life exhibited  47 acres.     Human zoos

Louisiana Exposition

Alongside the hot dog stands and carnival games, fairgoers could explore "human zoos," which were exhibits of real people who had been taken from their homelands. Brought from far-flung places, these people were "displayed" among re-creations of their native villages.

According to NPR, the Philippine village stretched for 47 acres and included more than 1,000 Filipinos from at least 10 different ethnic groups. The Philippines had just been acquired by the United States after the 1898 Spanish-American War, and fairgoers were curious about the "primitive" tribes.

But what they saw was hardly an accurate depiction. Fairgoers were told, for example, that the Igorots routinely ate dogs. Though Igorots only ate the creatures occasionally for ceremonial purposes back home, they were fed dog meat every day at the fair.

 Demeaning and dehumanizing  Ugly aspect of Phil Am relationships.     Ugly little brown bros.   Shameful...

Maybe they are not surprised on how much PHL has progressed after over a century   And someday, we will get ahead of the Big White Bros..  We have all that they have in their country.  We are a participant in many critical industries:   maritime, semicons, AI,  infrastructure and engineering.  We are ahead of them in GDP growth;   our economy is better off:   no end of petrodollars, no $39 trillion debt that can not be repaid; no trillion dollar war to be fought.   

Some of the tribes even produced beauty queens

Why were our leaders unable to make the same choice

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We could have been more prosperous had our leaders chosen this paths done by these two countries:     Singapore.  and Botswana

one was mosquito infested, no oil, no other resources.  But progressed from fishing village to    With GDP exceeding that of UK.    The leader invested heavily in education

What they had were outstanding leaders.  Dont we have leaders?

Botswana and Singapore