An organizing tropical threat will heighten the risk for flooding from the Philippines to Vietnam and Laos into midweek.A tropical low churning over the Philippine Sea is expected to strengthen and may become the next tropical storm in the western Pacific Ocean in the coming...
BOC eyes higher duties, taxes on balikbayan boxes
August 22, 2015
The Philippine Star - By Evelyn Macairan August 19, 2015
MANILA, Philippines - The government is losing approximately P600 million in taxes per year due to technical smuggling through balikbayan boxes, a Bureau of Customs (BOC) official said yesterday.
BOC deputy commissioner for assessment and operations coordinating group Agato...