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Tax truce? PH basketball gets proactive

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TAX EDUCATION. The BIR educates professional basketball players on how to pay taxes. Photo by Rappler/Aya Lowe

The incessant filing of tax cases against celebrities in entertainment and sports has led the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) to be more proactive in dealing with the tax bureau. About 145 professional players — including Jim Olmedo Alapag and Jared Ryan Dillinger who are facing tax cases — attended the two-hour forum at the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) where tax officials spoke about how to pay and how much taxes to pay. The awareness campaign is an effort to start with a clean slate with the tax bureau that is keen on its name-and-shame campaign. The celebrities, restaurant and retail owners and scores of others who are facing tax charges may learn a thing or two from the PBA’s initiative.


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