Finance Secretary Frederick Go has laid out additional measures to tighten the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s (BIR) crackdown on the reported abuse and misuse of letters of authority (LOAs), building on ...

ALL letters of authority (LOAs) will now need clearance from the commissioner of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) before ...

The Senate Blue Ribbon Committee on Thursday launched an investigation into reports of extortion and abuse within the Bureau ...

THE Department of Finance (DOF) is reviewing changes to the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s (BIR) issuance of Letters of Authority (LOAs), including limiting their frequency and merging certain audits.

Net-income taxation is a model built for negotiation, and negotiation is the soil in which corruption thrives. Gross-income taxation is now the only credible antidote.

FINANCE Secretary Frederick D. Go said the government is seeking to limit the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) offices ...

Prior to the announcement, Letters of Authority – which usually signal the start of a tax audit – were issued at the regional level ...

CUSTOMS Commissioner Ariel Nepomuceno has ordered the immediate suspension of letters of authority (LOAs) and mission orders (MOs) that were issued before July 2 but remain unserved. “This directive ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Bureau of Internal Revenue has tightened its audit protocols by requiring all Letters of Authority (LOAs) to secure clearance from BIR Commissioner Charlito Martin Mendoza ...

Ever since I joined FT Adviser back in 2019, a topic that has consistently come up as a major bugbear for advisers has been the letters of authority process. It was known to be a persistent source of ...

One of my favorite parts of each annual NBAA International Operators Conference (IOC) is the “Meet the Regulators” session, a chance to ask FAA inspectors questions and, more often than not, to ...