NEWS & ARTICLES

At the forthcoming legislature’s bicameral conference on corporate tax reform, it should only be a choice between CITIRA (House Bill 4157) and CREATE (Senate bill 1357). CITIRA is the House version of Package 2 of the comprehensive tax reform. CREATE, on the other hand, is...

(FIRST OF TWO PARTS) Cellphones and coronavirus are icons of the 21st Age of Globalization. Six ages of globalization of humankind preceded the 21st C digital era however. Between robots and humanoids taking over our species, and the decimation of the human race by a...

Sustainable finance is more than simply issuing green, social, and sustainability bonds. More broadly, it refers to a process of taking environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations into business decisions – particularly on investment and lending. Environmental considerations usually refer to climate change, deforestation, and...

I have seen many Facebook groups, rather FB support groups for Restaurant owners, business owners in general and just about every SME who has founded a business the past decades or maybe even just a few months before COVID started. And all of us, myself...

Mean and Wicked Many of us will long remember how mean and wicked COVID 19 is. For one, it is insidious. Except for a few which acted with alacrity, most nations were caught with their pants down – blissfully unware of the serious situation in...

There is no turning back. This is the NEW NORMAL. We must accept it and get used to it and most of all, adjust our business, job or career to adapt to it. When the lockdown was announced for the National Capital Region (NCR), I...

Several observations can be gleaned from the recent poverty survey (2018), especially about two clusters of regions: “North” for Northern Luzon and “South” for Mindanao. On the average, in 2015, the North has half the poverty of the South, and lower than the national incidence....

The hurriedly implemented government imposed Lockdown – Quarantine to arrest the COVID-19 crisis has brought about unintended consequences. It has caused serious income loss not only to the business community but more importantly to the lower and economically vulnerable income groups, most of whom are...