House leader warns of constitutional violation in taxing POGO

DIWA Rep. Mike Aglipay has aired fears that in the Lower House’s bid to tax the multi-billion peso POGO industry, vital provisions of the Constitution might go unnoticed.“The goal of the DOF to raise revenues is noble and will help finance the priority projects of this government. But we must still follow our Constitution and its mandated equal protection of laws clause which says that all laws must be crafted and implemented equally,” said Aglipay.

Davao City Rep. Isidro Ungab, chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, said concerns aired on the constitutional implications of House Bill 5257 will have to be discussed thoroughly during the plenary debates. POGO workers, numbering an estimated 138,000 who are mostly Chinese citizens, will be asked to pay 25 percent of their income provided that the minimum threshold of income is P600,000 per anum.

For his part, Manila Rep. Manny Lopez, chairman of the House Committee on Metro Manila Development, backed similar tax impositions on all other businesses but stressed that there should be no distinction.

Sorry po. Yun constitution ay para sa mga Pilipino (mga mamayan ng Pilipinas).

If the philippine government dont earn from POGO, let them go back to china!

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