Asia Times Big time tax evaders like [Chinese-Filipino tycoon] Lucio Tan go unscathed

Asia Times October 6, 2004 Excerpts from “Will the last one leaving please turn off the lights?”

In Manila, Bragas-Regalado lays down the line: “GMA [Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo] is pushing OFWs to pay taxes, despite the absence of adequate government services and protection here and abroad. This administration is propagating a big lie by indirectly blaming us for the fiscal crisis and poor tax collection.” And this is happening while “big-time tax evaders like [Chinese-Filipino tycoon] Lucio Tan go unscathed”. Migrante stresses that the US$7.6 billion in remittances by OFWs in 2003 “is almost 100 times the figures of foreign direct investments.

(Now, what is that “Run After Tax Evaders” is she screaming about? Dung!!)