With TRAIN passage, fuel marking in PH now mandatory
Marking of petroleum products, whether imported or manufactured locally in the Philippines, will now be mandatory under the recently signed Tax Reform for Acceleration…
Philippine Customs Commissioner Isidro Lapeña has instructed district collectors of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) to coordinate with counterpart regional directors in the Bureau…
Eighteen luxury cars worth more than P107 million were seized by the Bureau of Customs (BOC) due to undervaluation and incomplete documents. The shipments…
DOF to BOC: Form anti-smuggling task forces at regional level
Philippine Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has directed Customs Commissioner Isidro Lapeña to spearhead the creation of interagency task forces at the regional level…
Joint BOC-BIR task force eyed in renewed anti-smuggling drive
The Department of Finance (DOF) has ordered its attached revenue-generating agencies, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) and Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), to tighten…
The Department of Finance (DOF) is seeking a grant from the United States to establish the Philippines’ first tax academy envisioned to provide revenue…
Customs’ AMO ordered to speed up handling of importers’ applications
Philippine Customs commissioner Isidro Lapeña has instructed the Accounts Management Office (AMO) to process the applications of importers and customs brokers registering with the…
Duterte orders DOF to accept Mighty’s P25B tax liability deal
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has directed the Department of Finance (DOF) and Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to accept local cigarette manufacturer Mighty Corporation’s…
BIR released 66.3% more importer, customs broker certificates in first half
The Philippine Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) granted clearance certificates to 2,654 importers and customs brokers in the first half of 2017, 66.3% more…
BIR establishes new timetable for processing importers’, brokers’ certificates
The Philippine Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has issued a new schedule for receiving applications for and releasing the importer’s clearance certificate (ICC) and…
Aside from revenue generation, the Philippine Bureau of Customs (BOC) performs other equally pivotal roles in the Philippines’ economic development, making it imperative that…
The draft order covering the process of importer registration at the Philippine Bureau of Customs (BOC) has been released. Position papers on the draft…
Mighty’s legal woes mount as BIR mulls more charges
Philippine cigarette manufacturer Mighty Corp. is facing a string of additional criminal complaints involving tax liabilities of over P27 billion for the alleged possession…
BOC rejects Mighty appeal to lift suspension order
The Philippine Bureau of Customs (BOC) has denied Mighty Corporation’s motion to lift a suspension order against its accreditation for failure to present documentary…
A Manila court has dismissed for lack of jurisdiction the case filed by local cigarette manufacturer Mighty Corporation against the Bureau of Customs (BOC).…
