While hiking value-added tax (VAT) on 43 goods and services, the National Board of Revenue (NBR) is also focusing on widening income tax coverage by phasing out exemptions to raise the tax to GDP ...

Predictably and absurdly, it was all to be expected that the former Deputy Minister for Local Government and Rural ...

RA 11959 created the Maharlika Investment Corp. with its initial capital coming from the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP, P50 billion) and the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP, P25 billion).

Costas Simitis, former prime minister of Greece and the architect of the country’s joining the common European currency, the euro, has died at age 88, state TV ERT reported.

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has given the green light to the separation of the Inland Revenue Service IRS and Customs a long-debated reform that h ...

The chair of the ways and means panel of the House of Representatives on Saturday warned managers of the country’s first and only sovereign fund against investing in an energy firm that is already in ...

Two separate oversight and governance boards will be established for the IRS and Customs. These boards will be chaired by a ...

Satya Nadella has been Microsoft's CEO since 2014. The title was previously held by Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates. Look back ...

The benign Singh later warned India’s 'rich and famous' that 'rising income and wealth inequalities, if not matched by a ...

Hillary Clinton, George Soros, Lionel Messi and Bono are among 19 people President Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of ...

This is issue 159 of Ukrainian State-Owned Enterprises Weekly, covering events from Dec. 15-22, 2024. The Kyiv Independent is reposting it with permission. Corporate governance of SOEs Updated IMF ...

Major economic and financial institutions predict that the world economy will grow steadily this year, but will continue to ...