{"id":60433,"date":"2015-08-31T19:27:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T11:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=60433"},"modified":"2025-03-07T05:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T10:28:11","slug":"championship-belt-taxed-a-lower-amount-than-stated-says-boc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/08\/31\/championship-belt-taxed-a-lower-amount-than-stated-says-boc\/","title":{"rendered":"Championship belt taxed a lower amount than stated, says BOC"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_60455\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60455\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11742820_10204144632287504_4784332828553841292_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60455\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11742820_10204144632287504_4784332828553841292_n.jpg\" alt=\"Filipina flyweight champion Jujeath Nagaowa holding her WIBA world title belt. (Photo from Nagaowa's Facebook account)\" width=\"540\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11742820_10204144632287504_4784332828553841292_n.jpg 540w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11742820_10204144632287504_4784332828553841292_n-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60455\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filipina flyweight champion Jujeath Nagaowa holding her WIBA world title belt.<br \/>(Photo from Nagaowa&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/badgirljn\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook account<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 The Bureau of Customs (BOC) clarified that Filipina flyweight champion Jujeath Nagaowa was billed a lower amount for her Women\u2019s International Boxing Association (WIBA) world title belt, correcting the 27 year-old boxer\u2019s earlier claims.<\/p>\n<p>The BOC also explained that the championship belt was still taxed as it was claimed by boxing promoter Brico Santig.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy vermox online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phamatech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/vermox.html\">https:\/\/www.phamatech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/vermox.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> If Nagaowa herself took the belt, it would have been exempted from customs duties.<\/p>\n<p>Holding a copy of the transaction\u2019s official receipt, BOC district collector Ed Macabeo disclosed that the championship belt was only charged P3,630, contrary to the boxing champion\u2019s claim that she paid P5,819.13 to retrieve the belt.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the belt\u2019s total importation tax due was initially at P4,467, with a customs duty at P2,318, a value added\u00a0 tax amounting to P2,134 and a Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) stamp worth P15. This payment was later on \u2018readjusted\u2019 and lowered to just P3,630.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tentative computation showed on her Facebook account is different from the tentative computation used in settling the duties and taxes. Ms. Nagaowa posted on her Facebook page a tentative computation amounting to P5,819 while the one attached to the importation records is for P4,467,\u201d Macabeo said.<\/p>\n<p>Nagaowa, however, stood by her claims and asserted that she was not issued a receipt on her payment but was only given a copy of the computation of duties and taxes imposed on her belt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was the only document the BOC gave us,\u201d she said in a Philippine Daily Inquirer report, mentioning that she even shared on her Facebook account a photo of the department\u2019s computation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would have posted the official receipt if we were given one by the customs people,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy bimatoprost online <a href=\"https:\/\/b-nutritious.com\/lib\/thumbscroller\/png\/bimatoprost.html\">https:\/\/b-nutritious.com\/lib\/thumbscroller\/png\/bimatoprost.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Nagaowa earlier\u00a0stated that her championship belt was given an estimated value of P20,147.77, entailing a customs duty at P3,027.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy zocor online <a href=\"https:\/\/b-nutritious.com\/lib\/thumbscroller\/png\/zocor.html\">https:\/\/b-nutritious.com\/lib\/thumbscroller\/png\/zocor.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>13 and a value added tax amounting to P2,782.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt hurts that after battling full 10 rounds of boxing for this belt and after some days of agony waiting for its arrival in my place, [there\u2019s] so much disappointed \u2018cause this big thing of mine is also waiting for me for a trade before claiming it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[I am] just lucky enough with friends, so must have to pay for it than losing the only evidence I could have that once in my existence,\u201d she added. \u201cI gambled my life for a lifetime treasure that others may take over my throne but can\u2019t take this crown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/08\/28\/boc-questioned-for-taxing-supposedly-exempted-championship-belt\/\" target=\"_blank\">BOC questioned for taxing supposedly exempted championship belt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Filipina boxer won the WIBA light flyweight title in her boxing match against China\u2019s Lou Yu Jie earlier this year. The championship belt was recently shipped to her from Macau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 The Bureau of Customs (BOC) clarified that Filipina flyweight champion Jujeath Nagaowa was billed a lower amount for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":60455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-60433","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\/60433","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=60433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287555,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60433\/revisions\/287555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}