Comments on: VAT kicks in

By: goggle

goggle — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 06:19:13 +0000

Grande sito!!

By: baycas

baycas — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:26:27 +0000

a patient kicks Ã¢â‚¬Å“vatÃ¢â‚¬Â

Ã¢â‚¬Â¦if gloria says vat is a bitter pill we have to swallow, i must seek a second opinion from another doctor. perhaps, he/she may just prescribe a suppository.

By: joey

joey — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 02:35:13 +0000

although it hurts my pocket too, vat is here to stay & in the long term i’m sure we will see results too.
we just have to hold our breaths.it’s just another bitter pill that we have been postponing for long,seems like it takes an unpopular president to do the job.

By: Karl

Karl — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 01:45:09 +0000

I have changed my views of the underground economy

If they source their goods from cheaped smuggled imports then it is not their fault but of the smugglers

and if they buy their goods from so called legit sources and it is no longer their fault if those sources don’t pay the correct amount of tax or not, sila hindi nag reresibo pero ang mga de resibo nakakalusot pa din kahit paano

lastly di Ko naman nilalahat

By: Jon Mariano

Jon Mariano — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 01:34:36 +0000

I have a relative who’s a doctor. I found what she said to be interesting. She said that because of e-VAT, the number of patients have gone down. I joked that e-VAT must have made Filipinos more disease resistant!

She answered that more Filipinos(in our province anyway) now do self-medication! And sometimes back to the old style of using medicinal plants. It’s true, there are times that we all need to bite the bullet. Nevertheless, most of the time it’s the ordinary people who suffers the heavy burden. They’re the ones who don’t have “shock absorbers” during difficult times. The rich feels the strain too, but more often than not, they have more means to adjust. They have budgets to cut, compared to the poor who have really nothing more to adjust.

By: Karl

Karl — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 00:23:08 +0000

They will add exmptions to the more than 75 % of the tax base
yet they will collect vat from the same tax base

with remaining 25 % still avoiding taxes

Those 75 % are the fixed earners most are isang kahig isang tuka

The rest are the rich and self employed who are the ones who should pay more

they should be given less incentives

but unfortunately beggars can’t be choosers…

In addition

If it is true that the known smugglers are close to the big guy out there and that the big guy wants to buy the second biggest port thru his golfing buddy who is now the leader in the trade…then……Hooray for filipinos interested in taking it from the expats(Is that so??)

By: dodong

dodong — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 21:16:16 +0000

Excellent point in corporation.
It is created for profitability 1st thing 1st.
The catholic church as sole corporation is in the business of saving souls but has to meet its profitability end to keep in business.

Corporations enjoy various tax shelters to avoid paying taxes. Corporations with their deep pockets can afford to influence the legislators to make laws in their favor or the government to give them incentives with net amount of less taxes to the national treasury.

Ordinary folks don’t understand that the playing field is so skewed. Ordinary workers have no choice of paying taxes. Taxes are taken before they can get their daily wage. While legislators are enjoying the lavish perks and benefits of lobbying corporations at the same time being paid by the workers taxes.

By: dodong

dodong — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 18:00:18 +0000

talking about vat is like talking about spilled milk.

the people’s elected congressmen approved the vat law for the president to collect the vat.

it is easy to blame the president, another kind of circus, while the poor people think if they have money left to spend.

By: joey

joey — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:08:34 +0000

I like Manny Pacquiaos remark about “I’m a champion, why would i make anyone use me”
We might just see him as a “champion”.He is a great winner today only because he persevered, focused & work hard and along the way he has shown micch modesty & fear of God.Really great values from a person who can identify w/ many.We are not short of having good exsamples in life
Along his road to victory I can think of no one who has shown so much love & patriotissim for his country.Really careing to unite it in what ever way he can.While others will do anything to divide the nation.Manny dares to be different.

By: fencesitter

fencesitter — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 08:58:02 +0000

I find it unacceptable calling those who call and are really relentlessly pursuing for the truth, anti- Gloria. I do not have to be anti-Gloria to be interested in knowing what really has gone wrong in the last presidential election.