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The 34th Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Congress voted to dismantle a cornerstone of their governance reforms-a decision that granted their leaders unlimited years in power. This seismic shift in policy marked a departure from the stringent ...

A YouTube video’s headline claimed that the Philippines recently allowed the Japanese military to occupy its military bases. This is misleading.

On March 24, 2023, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador sent to the Chamber of Deputies an initiative proposing the amendment of more than 20 federal laws ("Initiative") to strengthen...

Senior Citizen Party-list Rep. Rodolfo Ordanes(File photo courtesy of House Press and Public Affairs Bureau) MANILA - A party-list lawmaker on Tuesday lauded the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) by making the filing of value-added tax (VAT) returns quarterly instead of monthly. Senior Citizen Party-list Rep. Rodolfo Ordanes said the new BIR policy will simplify and make it easier for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to comply with tax filing requirements. Ordanes said the BIR could co...

Effective January 1, 2023, VAT-registered taxpayers are no longer required to file the Monthly Value-Added Tax Declaration (BIR Form No. 2550M).

Philippine Senate (File photo) MANILA - Some Filipino voters may be wondering why only 12 members of the Senate are elected every three years when there are actually 24 senators attending the opening of Congress on the fourth Monday of July following the polls. The answer is in the 27-Section Transitory Provisions of the 1987 Constitution, particularly in Section 2 of Article XVIII which states that "senators, members of the House of Representatives, and the local officials first elected un...

The consultative committee, tasked with drafting a new constitution, eyes the removal of the impeachment power of Congress over justices of the Constitutional Court, one of the proposed three Supreme Courts under the draft charter. READ: Concom eyes 3 supreme courts Concom proposes that the impeachment of justices in Constitutional Court be decided instead by the 15-member Supreme Court. The proposed Constitutional Court will have a presiding justice appointed by the Supreme Court and six associ...

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Poynter on 3 December 2021.

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Advice for DWP decision makers on Universal Credit, PIP and contribution-based JSA and ESA for people who are eligible for Universal Credit.