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Ofcom has finalised their move to soften the Net Neutrality rules, which were originally established to prevent unfair blocking or slowing of access to

THE amendments introduced by Republic Act (RA) 11534, or the Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises (Create) Act, and RA 10963, or the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (Train) Law, to our National Internal Revenue Code of 1997 (Tax Code), significantly changed the value-added tax (VAT) landscape in the Philippines.

We've routinely noted how countless communities have been forced to explore building their own broadband networks thanks to limited competition in the market. As most of you have experienced first hand, this lack of competition routinely results in higher prices, slower speeds, worse customer service, and massive broadband deployment gaps. And thanks to telecom industry…

Tax Notes: BIR prior approval on VAT zero-rating of qualified purchases of Registered Export Enterprises (REEs) no longer required

* Says additional capacity remains nonoperational due to forex issues and the unavailability of energy

You might recall that a few years ago the FCC under Tom Wheeler bumped the standard definition of broadband to 25 Mbps downstream, 3 Mbps upstream. This greatly upset the broadband industry (and the numerous lawmakers and policy flacks paid to love them) because it highlighted a lack of broadband competition and deployment. That's especially…

Implementation of VAT zero-rating, exemption provisions for registered export enterprises under the Create Law

By Alois Vinga LEADING financial services provider, First Capital Bank has launched Alisa, a WhatsApp Banking Chatbot, taking their first step in the use of Artificial Intelligence comprising machine learning and cognitive computing technologies to provide customers and clients with various banking services. The mobile banking application brings peace of mind with its unique privacy and security settings that comprise end-to-end encryption plus an identification and verification processes prior...

Tue, Feb 23rd 2021 3:34pm — Mike Masnick People have been very angry at me for pointing out that Facebooks decision to ban links to news down under actually made sense -- even though Facebook has now cut a deal to return the links. The move was in response to an incredibly poorly thought out law to force Facebook and Google to pay giant news organizations, just because those news organizations couldnt figure out how to innovate online. One key point: I said that even if Facebook is the worst...

As part of a broader partnership between the BBC and BT, hugely popular and award-winning BBC Bitesize programming slot is to be zero rate for all EE, BT Mobile and PlusNet Mobile customers.