By Perla Lena/PNA
ILOILO CITY -- Iloilo’s Dinagyang Festival serves as the main driver of any activity in this city, benefitting not just tourism but also ancillary services.
Maria Victoria Lara, executive director...
By Nanette Guadalquiver/PNA
BACOLOD CITY -- The City of Bacolod raked in PHP1.444 billion in real property taxes and other non-tax revenues in 2018, with a collection efficiency of 143 percent, records...
By Leslie Gatpolintan/PNA
MANILA -- The Philippine economic growth trajectory is expected to pick up this year, growing between 6.8 percent and 7.2 percent on an upturn in consumption spending amid improving...
By Joann Villanueva/PNA
MANILA -- Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III remains hopeful that lawmakers would still approve pending tax reform packages, a priority program of the Duterte administration, citing their potential benefits...
By Joann Villanueva/PNA
MANILA -- Ensuring truly inclusive growth, sustained high level domestic output and a healthy dose of tax reform will propel the Philippines to upper middle-income economy status this 2019,...
By Joann Villanueva/PNA
MANILA -- An assurance from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) that the banking system remains strong despite Hanjin’s default soothed the fears in the local equities market but...
