{"id":21356,"date":"2014-08-08T12:01:20","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T04:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=21356"},"modified":"2014-08-09T17:08:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T09:08:00","slug":"solons-file-bill-to-include-road-users-tax-in-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/08\/solons-file-bill-to-include-road-users-tax-in-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Solons file bill to include road users tax in budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11350\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11350\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/house-of-representative-philippine-congress.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11350\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/house-of-representative-philippine-congress-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Robert Vi\u00f1as \/ PCOO\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/house-of-representative-philippine-congress-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/house-of-representative-philippine-congress-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/house-of-representative-philippine-congress.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11350\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Robert Vi\u00f1as \/ PCOO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Two lamakers from Mindanao filed a bill which seeks to include the taxes collected from road users in the annual budget.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cagayan de Oro City Rep. Rufus Rodriguez and younger brother Abante Mindanao partylist Rep. Maximo Rodriguez Jr. filed House Bill 4299 which amends the Republic Act 8794 or the\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;Act Imposing a Motor Vehicle User\u2019s Charge on Owners of All Types of Motor Vehicles and for Other Purposes.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez explained that the government collected\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">P90.7 billion from 2001 to December 2012 in amount called the\u00a0Motor Vehicle User\u2019s Fund.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThe average annual collection was at around P7 billion.\u00a0 However, there were reports that as of the end of 2012, only P10.2 billion remained of the fund,\u201d Rodriguez said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers are seeking to include the phrase<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u201cas may be determined by Congress,&#8221; and the phrase\u00a0\u201cand form part of the general fund of the Philippines to be appropriated by Congress in the Annual General Appropriations Act.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The fund who is supposedly allocated for road maintenance and improvement is now at the disposal of the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Two lamakers from Mindanao filed a bill which seeks to include the taxes collected from road users in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[1983,7075,7259],"class_list":["post-21356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","tag-congress","tag-national-budget","tag-road-tax","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21356","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=21356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}