Windows26: ‘Raid’ of PhilHealth funds can still stop, Recto told

October 3, 2024

Hello, reader! Today, we're covering efforts to stop the transfer of PhilHealth's excess funds, a new tax law on foreign digital service providers, and the arrest of a suspect in a 1998 textbook scam.

'Raid' of PhilHealth funds can still stop, Recto told

Former senior government officials from different administrations have called on Finance Secretary Ralph Recto to stop the impending transfers of what remains of the P89.9 billion in "excess" funds of the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) to the national treasury.

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LIVE UPDATES: Day 3 filing of COCs for 2025 elections

Keep up to date on who's filing their candidacy for the 2025 midterm elections.

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DOJ asked to go after Garma, Leonardo using House witnesses

The chair of the House quad committee urged the Department of Justice (DOJ) to press charges against retired police colonels Royina Garma and Edilberto Leonardo for the killing of former Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) board secretary Wesley Barayuga in 2020, a cold case dusted off by explosive allegations made before the panel last week.

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New tax law hopes to raise P105B from foreign DSPs

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Wednesday signed into law a measure imposing a 12-percent value-added tax (VAT) on foreign digital service providers (DSPs) of video and music streaming, conferencing and online marketplaces in a bid to raise about P105 billion in revenues over the next five years.

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1998 textbook scam suspect Maslog back from the 'dead'

She escaped possible conviction for graft in the 1998 textbook scam case after the Sandiganbayan was informed of her "death" in 2019. But last week, agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) discovered that Mary Ann Maslog was alive and well, as they arrested her for yet another alleged racket.

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EDITORIAL: Murder. Garma wrote

Testifying in the House quad committee's probe into the Duterte drug war killings and the criminal activities of the Philippine offshore gaming operators, Lt. Col. Santie Mendoza of the Philippine National Police Drug Enforcement Group tagged former PCSO general manager Royina Garma and Edilberto Leonardo, an incumbent National Police Commissioner, as masterminds in retired police office Wesley Barayuga's killing four years ago.

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