{"id":45980,"date":"2015-03-30T13:34:35","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T05:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=45980"},"modified":"2015-03-30T13:34:35","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T05:34:35","slug":"pacman-leads-list-of-top-taxpayers-for-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/30\/pacman-leads-list-of-top-taxpayers-for-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacman leads list of top taxpayers for 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"8-Division<\/a>
8-Division Boxing Champion and Sarangani Representative Manny ‘Pacman’ Pacquiao (Facebook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA —\u00a0Sarangani representative and boxing champion Manny Pacquiao is still the country’s highest tax payer, according to a list released on Friday by the Bureau of Internal Revenue.<\/p>\n

As of Nov. 24, 2014, Pacquiao paid\u00a0P163.8 million in regular income taxes for the taxable year 2013.<\/p>\n

Next to Pacquiao is Juanito Alcantara who paid\u00a0P99.6 million in taxes, followed by\u00a0Lawyer Estelito Mendoza, owner of E.P. Mendoza Law Office and who served as solicitor general from 1972 to 1986, \u00a0with P73.2 million in taxes,\u00a0Reynaldo Chico Jr. (P67.3 million) and property tycoon Andrew Tan (P67.2 million).<\/p>\n

On the sixth place was\u00a0Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. President Lorenzo Tan with P60.9 million, followed by Palawan Gov. Jose Alvarez (P55.6 million).<\/p>\n

The eight place was taken by\u00a0Vivian Que-Azcona, president of Mercury Drug, with P51.6 million in taxes followed by\u00a0Meralco president Oscar Reyes (P51.44 million) and Insular Life chair and chief executive officer Vicente Rafael Ayllon (P50.1 million).<\/p>\n

Ramon Ang, President of San Miguel Corp ranked 12th\u00a0the list with\u00a0P46.5 million.<\/p>\n

Names of celebrities were also in the list including\u00a0President Aquino\u2019s sister, Kris Aquino was 16th with P40.5 million, Piolo Pascual (P42.5 million), John Lloyd Cruz (P41.9 million), Sharon Cuneta-Pangilinan (P39 million), Willie Revillame (P38.3 million) and Anne Curtis-Smith (P28.3 million).<\/p>\n

The BIR released the list to the public in accordance with the requirements of\u00a0Republic Act No. 9480, known as the Philippine Tax Amnesty Act of 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA —\u00a0Sarangani representative and boxing champion Manny Pacquiao is still the country’s highest tax payer, according to a list released …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":33761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45980","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=45980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}