TRAIN-2 was renamed Tax Reform for Attracting Better and High-Quality Opportunities (TRABAHO) to distance itself from the controversial TRAIN-1, but it is very much a twin measure to TRAIN-1 in the Duterte administration’s scheme to craft a tax system that favours the rich at the expense of the poor.
Day: September 13, 2018
1.9M Filipinos to be affected by ‘Ompong’
Ompong is expected to be the strongest weather system to hit the country this year.
Gabriela urges gov’t to take concrete steps amid 6.4% inflation
By HEATHER ANN AMOROSO Bulatlat.com MANILA — Days after the Philippine Statistics Authority revealed that the country has hit another nine-year high inflation rate, members of women’s group Gabriela protested in front of the Department of Agriculture (DA) against the high inflation and demanded the government to take immediate and concrete steps to ensure ample…
Goyo: The transfiguration of a boy
The decision to partake in struggles beyond the personal is gargantuan and its consequences are mortal. It is in this decision that heroism of del Pilar can be found. By VINZ SIMON Bulatlat.com Meditative would be the best adjective that could be appended for Jerrold Tarog’s Goyo ang Batang Heneral. Goyo’s contemplative pacing is contrasted…