{"id":58560,"date":"2015-08-10T15:03:30","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T07:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=58560"},"modified":"2025-01-16T09:34:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T14:34:22","slug":"customs-increases-tax-on-balikbayan-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/08\/10\/customs-increases-tax-on-balikbayan-boxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Customs increases tax on \u2018balikbayan\u2019 boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_58561\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58561\" style=\"width: 582px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_6422a1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58561\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_6422a1.jpg\" alt=\"Bureau of Customs (BOC) Commissioner Alberto Lina (Photo from the BOC)\" width=\"582\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_6422a1.jpg 582w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_6422a1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-58561\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BOC Commissioner Bert\u00a0Lina (Photo from the <a href=\"http:\/\/customs.gov.ph\/\" target=\"_blank\">BOC<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Bureau of Customs (BOC) Commissioner Alberto \u201cBert\u201d Lina recently increased the duties and taxes for all consolidated shipments, which often contained \u2018balikbayan\u2019 boxes.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, Lina approved an increase from P80,000 to P180,000. Filipino freight forwarders and other companies involved in the delivery of shipments then complained on the sudden increase and staged a silent protest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one filed an entry for a week\u2026 Maybe that was their way to make their complaints be heard,\u201d an unnamed source said in a Manila Bulletin report.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy prednisolone online <a href=\"https:\/\/udelldental.com\/img\/udell-dental\/png\/prednisolone.html\">https:\/\/udelldental.com\/img\/udell-dental\/png\/prednisolone.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Lina then lowered the charge from P180,000 to P120,000.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy azithromycin online <a href=\"https:\/\/udelldental.com\/img\/udell-dental\/png\/azithromycin.html\">https:\/\/udelldental.com\/img\/udell-dental\/png\/azithromycin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>\u00a0About two weeks ago, he also increased the tariff to P40,000 per container.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the previous port congestion problem, truck bans and shipping delays caused by traffic, freight forwarders are compelled to abide by these increases while maintaining low prices for their services.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy zocor online <a href=\"https:\/\/udelldental.com\/img\/udell-dental\/png\/zocor.html\">https:\/\/udelldental.com\/img\/udell-dental\/png\/zocor.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Bureau of Customs (BOC) Commissioner Alberto \u201cBert\u201d Lina recently increased the duties and taxes for all consolidated shipments, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":58561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-58560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-rewrite","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58560","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284538,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58560\/revisions\/284538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}