{"id":270674,"date":"2020-10-02T07:09:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T11:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=270674"},"modified":"2025-03-06T11:55:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T16:55:38","slug":"court-rejects-taguigs-bid-to-tax-veterans-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/10\/02\/court-rejects-taguigs-bid-to-tax-veterans-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Court rejects Taguig’s bid to tax veterans center"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a 22-page decision dated September 25 and made public Friday, the tax court\u2019s Third Division under Associate Justice Maria Rowena Modesto-San Pedro ruled that the \u201cVFP is a government instrumentality and thus exempt from paying real property taxes.\u201d (Shutterstock photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) has \u201cdenied for lack of merit\u201d a petition filed by the Taguig City government seeking to impose real property taxes on the Veterans Federation of the Philippines (VFP).<\/p>\n

In a 22-page decision dated September 25 and made public Friday, the tax court\u2019s Third Division under Associate Justice Maria Rowena Modesto-San Pedro ruled that the \u201cVFP is a government instrumentality and thus exempt from paying real property taxes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The local government unit (LGU) in 2000 had issued an assessment of RPT against the VFP\u2019s 50-hectare property in Western Bicutan and issued a notice of auction for the same for unpaid taxes amounting to PHP99 million from tax years 1989 to 1999.<\/p>\n

The property known as the \u201cVeterans\u2019 Center\u201d was set aside by the government in 1967 under Proclamation No.<\/p>\n

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192 as a center for different activities of Filipino veterans, including a Veterans Rehabilitation Medical and Training Center.<\/p>\n

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The VFP claims that while it leases some of its property which includes around 30 buildings, it does so “not as a commercial undertaking but as part of the national government”.<\/p>\n

The Pasig City Regional Trial Court, acting on a petition of the VFP, issued a restraining order stopping the auction in March 2000.<\/p>\n

In ruling that the entity cannot be taxed, the court said it \u201crules that the VFP is not a GOCC but a government instrumentality\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Associate Justices Erlinda P. Uy and Ma. Belen Ringpis-Liban concurred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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