DOJ asks BIR to determine how much gov’t is losing to oil smuggling
DOJ asks BIR to determine how much gov’t is losing to oil smuggling
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00:00In other news, the Department of Justice, or DOJ, is studying how much in terms of taxes
00:05the government loses from oil smuggling activities in the country.
00:09In fact, it has already asked the Bureau of Internal Revenue, or BIR, to compute exactly
00:15how much government revenues are lost due to non-payment of taxes by those involved
00:20in oil smuggling.
00:21The order from the DOJ stemmed from its ongoing investigation on the possible involvement
00:26in smuggling of the ship that caused the oil spill in Bataan and Cavite.
00:56a smuggler.