{"id":21133,"date":"2014-08-06T00:13:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T16:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=21133"},"modified":"2025-01-19T08:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T13:59:10","slug":"govt-workers-protest-against-new-bir-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/06\/govt-workers-protest-against-new-bir-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t workers protest against new BIR ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4486\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4486\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Supreme-Court.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4486\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Supreme-Court-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Supreme Court of the Philippines. Photo by Mike Gonzales courtesy of Wiki Commons.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Supreme-Court-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Supreme-Court.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4486\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supreme Court of the Philippines. Photo by Mike Gonzales courtesy of Wiki Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Government workers wearing red shirts and ribbons trooped to the Supreme Court on Wednesday to protest against the Bureau of Internal Revenue\u2019s Memorandum Order (RMO) 23-2014 issued last June.<\/p>\n<p>The order seeks to impose up to 32 percent tax on government employees\u2019 tax on their civil service benefits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe RMO is like a boulder hurled to practically drown employees in the bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy antabuse online <a href=\"https:\/\/udelldental.com\/img\/udell-dental\/png\/antabuse.html\">https:\/\/udelldental.com\/img\/udell-dental\/png\/antabuse.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> It is oppressive and unfair. We are calling on the justices of the Supreme Court to put a lid on this seeming abuse of authority,\u201d Confederation of Unity, Recognition and Advancement of Government Employees (Courage) national president Ferdinand Gaite told reporters.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy zithromax online <a href=\"https:\/\/udelldental.com\/img\/udell-dental\/png\/zithromax.html\">https:\/\/udelldental.com\/img\/udell-dental\/png\/zithromax.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>They also insisted that the memorandum which imposes taxes on allowances, bonuses, compensations for services and other fringe benefits are unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose benefits are deemed property within the purview of the Bill of Rights of which government officials and employees, including the petitioners, may not be deprived without due process of law under Article III, Section 1, Constitution,\u201d read the 75-page petition.<\/p>\n<p>The employees filed the petition with former Sen. Aquilino Pimentel Jr as their legal counsel.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy bimatoprost online <a href=\"https:\/\/udelldental.com\/img\/udell-dental\/png\/bimatoprost.html\">https:\/\/udelldental.com\/img\/udell-dental\/png\/bimatoprost.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Taxes on government officials \u201cthrash the principles of decentralization and local autonomy set forth in the Local Government Code of 1991, Republic Act 7160,\u201d Pimentel said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Local Government Code invests local government officials with certain powers that cannot be added on or diminished without violating its thrust of promoting decentralization and local autonomy that is mandated by the Constitution itself, unless done so by an appropriate legislation that amends the Code accordingly,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Government workers wearing red shirts and ribbons trooped to the Supreme Court on Wednesday to protest against the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":4486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[7199,7198,2942],"class_list":["post-21133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","tag-bir-ruling","tag-govt-workers","tag-sc","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285756,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21133\/revisions\/285756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}