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First phase of TPLEX to begin operations Wednesday

Motorists heading for Baguio may soon be able to slash more than 40 minutes off their travel time to the City of Pines by passing through the the first phase of the Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway (TPLEX), which will begin operations on Wednesday, Oct. 30.

According to a report aired on "24 Oras" Tuesday, the 17-kilometer-long road stretching from Tarlac City to the cities of Victoria and Gerona, Tarlac is directly connected to the Subic-Clark-Tarlac expressway (SCTEX).

From Gerona, TPLEX will have exits in Paniqui and Moncada in Tarlac; Rosales, Urdaneta City, and Pozorrubio in Pangasinan; and Rosario in La Union. Section 1 (from Tarlac City to Rosales, 49.3 km in length) is scheduled to be completed in mid-2014. The entire stretch of the TPLEX from Tarlac City to Rosario, La Union (88.85 km) is expected to be completed in 2016.

Image from the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) website.

Last Friday, the Toll Regulatory Board issued a Toll Operation Permit for the expressway after Private Infra Development Corporation (PIDC) completed the construction of the first phase.

The 17-kilometer thoroughfare is equipped with hi-tech sensors, lighting and reflectors. Motorists might also expect prompt emergency response by police patrol cars, tow trucks and ambulances, which will be on standby and which can be dispatched to the scene in 10 minutes.

The tollway operator has yet to post the toll rates for TPLEX, although the television report said it will be made public soon. 

This is a repost from — Xianne Arcangel/BM, GMA News

BIR “loads” Urdaneta City telecommunications trader with tax evasion for failure to file ITRs

“Even in the wireless industry where transactions are mostly consummated electronically, it is not hard to catch tax cheats” is the stern warning given by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) when it filed today with the Department of Justice a complaint for tax evasion against a telecommunications trader for wilful attempt to evade or defeat tax, deliberate failure to file Income and Value Added Tax Returns for taxable years 2007 and 2008, and failure to register as VAT taxpayer in violation of Sections 254, 255 and 275, in relation to Section 236 (G) (1) of the Tax Code, as amended.

Charged was Danilo Cortez Robles of Dona Loleng Village, Urdaneta City, Pangasinan. Robles is a Filipino Citizen engaged in the business of buying and selling handsets, simpacks, eLoad and prepaid cards under the trade name Robles Merchandising. He registered with the BIR as a taxpayer subject to percentage tax.

Investigation conducted by the BIR revealed that Robles substantially under-declared his income and purchases for the first quarter of 2007 and deliberately failed to report altogether the rest of his income for 2007 and his entire income for 2008.

Based on certifications issued by both Pilipino Telephone Corporation (PTC) and SMART Communications, Inc. (SMART), Robles made purchases from both entities amounting to P332, 437,797.87 and P164, 149,394.30 for taxable years 2007 and 2008, respectively. As a Filipino Citizen deriving income within the Philippines, he is subject to income tax and mandated to declare all his income for each taxable year in his tax returns and pay the corresponding taxes due thereon.

Records of the BIR show that Robles has a “stop-filer” status as he only filed his first quarter income tax return (ITR) for 2007 where he declared a meager income of only P680, 000.00 and failed to file his ITRs for the rest of 2007 and the entire 2008 despite the continuation of his business operations. Robles also did not file his ending inventory lists for the said two year period.

With the failure of Robles to report his purchases from PTC and SMART and to file his ending inventory lists with the BIR, the subject purchases necessarily were all sold and disposed of resulting in undeclared sales of P357, 229,527.05 and P176, 390,924.46 for 2007 and 2008, respectively.

The scheme of Robles of evading his tax obligations became even more evident when he failed to register as VAT taxpayer as required by the Tax Code considering that based on his initial purchases in January 2007 of P21, 104,464.29 and the nature of his business operations, there exist reasonable grounds to believe that his gross sales in 2007 will exceed the P1.5 million threshold for VAT registration.

The estimated aggregate tax liability of Robles for 2007 and 2008 is P162, 710,723.34, inclusive of surcharges and interests, broken down into Income Tax of P23, 897,474.84 (2007 – P16, 551,524.51; 2008 – P7, 345,950.33) and VAT of P138, 813,248.50 (2007 – P94, 984,230.40; 2008 – P43, 829,018.10).

The case against Danilo Cortez Robles is the 48th filed under the Run After Tax Evaders (RATE) program of the BIR under the leadership of Commissioner Kim S. Jacinto-Henares. It is likewise the first RATE case of Revenue Region No. 1, Calasiao, Pangasinan.

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Cop, 9 others held for drugs

TEN suspected drug personalities, including a Zamboanga del Norte policeman and his wife, were arrested in a string of anti-narcotics operations conducted by agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency this week, PDEA chief Jose S. Gutierrez, Jr. said yesterday.

Gutierrez identified the policeman as Police Officer 1 Alexander Lapinig alias Tatil, 38.

Lapinig and his wife Judy were caught while conspiring to sell P1,000 worth of shabu to an undercover officer of the PDEA Regional Office 9 at Purok Pag-asa, Barangay Barbara, Dipolog City. 

Gutierrez said that shortly after the couple was arrested, officers armed with a search warrant issued by Digos City Judge Chandler Ruiz raided their house where they seized 10 plastic sachets containing shabu and assorted drug sniffing paraphernalia.

In Pangasinan, PDEA agents nabbed Nestor Tubig in a buy-bust operation on Sison Street, Barangay Dilan-Purtido, Urdaneta City shortly after he sold P1,000 worth of shabu to an officer. 

Two others identified as Melchor Abogade and Reyjay Barroca were collared in separate anti-narcotics operations in Butuan City and Matinao, Davao City.  Abogade yielded two grams of shabu after he was arrested at Purok 8, Sto. Niño, Barangay Ong Yiu in Butuan City.

Barroca fell into police hands after he sold three packets of shabu to a poseur in MacAthur Highway, Matinao, Davao City.

Suspect Ronald Tamon was arrested by combined agents of the PDEA Regional Office 12 and the Norala municipal police after he sold shabu to an undercover officer near his store at Purok San Roque, Barangay Poblacion.

PDEA Region 12 chief Director Yogi Filemon Ruiz said they had received reports that Tamon was using his “sari-sari” store as front in his illegal drug activities.

In Legazpi City, two suspected drug personalities identified as Felizardo Rodriguez, Sr. and Joven Bodopol were arrested by PDEA and police operatives in Barangay Bitano. 

Two peddlers of sandals and fake DVDs and CDs-turned drug dealers, Kamar Makalandap alias “Lia,” 29, and Jamaloding Ali Naik alias “Michael,” 27, were arrested in an entrapment in La Trinidad, Benguet.      

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Baguio City partners with other Ilocos cities for “Sabsabong ti Mayo”

The city government of Baguio, through the City Tourism Office, extends an invitation to tourism officers, local officials, and the muses of 10 key cities and municipalities here in Northern Luzon for the 2011 staging of ‘Sabsabong ti Mayo’ (Flowers of May).

In the Kapihan sa Baguio forum Wednesday, City Tourism Officer Benny Alhambra bared that they have invited the cities of Laoag and Batac of Ilocos Norte; Vigan and Candon of Ilocos Sur; San Fernando, La Union, and Dagupan, San Carlos, Urdaneta, and Alaminos of Pangasinan to join Baguio City and Tabuk City of Kalinga for this year’s staging of Sabsabong ti Mayo.

Alhambra explained that Sabsabong ti Mayo’ is a cultural and eco-tourism program and as a new product that they would like to develop to be a major tourism event, they are now partnering with other cities and key municipalities in this northern part of the country.

“We are converging here in Baguio to showcase the cultural and eco-tourism products especially the eco-fiber of the different places here in the north,” Alhambra said.

As the highlight of the event, a Santacruzan will be held on May 26 inside the SM City Baguio, which will be participated by the invited tourism officers as well as their cultural bearers or muses of their respective areas. An eco-fiber designer gown fashion show cum competition will also be held.

On Friday, the city guests will also join some of the city barangays for a ‘Santacruzan’, which will start at Session Road to the Baguio Convention Center wherein the Sabsabong ti Mayo will be culminated by an ‘anido’ (bonfire) for an informal meeting of the minds and gathering through bonfire, accompanied by dance, music and food.

Alhambra also disclosed that they will also be holding a participative development forum with their fellow tourism officers, to have an assessment of the ‘Sabsabong’ activity.

“Very briefly we would like to make an assessment, on what Sabsabong is all about and in line with our vision towards establishing it to be a major program of the city for the second quarter, after Panagbenga.

In partnership with eco-tourism officers and leaders on the North, we want to make this as a major event and to come out with programs on how we can also promote each other,” Alhambra said.

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Dagupan hizzoner bares plan to put up own school

DAGUPAN CITY, This city may have its own college or university soon as earlier done by two other cities in Pangasinan.

Mayor Benjamin S. Lim bared this plan during a media forum where he hailed the partnership between the Alaminos City government and the Pangasinan State University that gave birth to the new PSU-campus in Alaminos as a “novel cause that deserves to be equaled.”

Lim issued the statement in defense of Braganza who was accused along with the PSU management of allegedly operating illegally the PSU Alaminos campus.“Tama si Mayor Nani, every leader must develop one’s city or locality, so why should we blame him for trying to provide affordable education to the youth.”

He bared that his administration was also considering putting up a city-owned school. “Dagupan City may soon consider the establishment of our own state college or university, just like what Urdaneta and Alaminos did. Thank you, Mayor Nani, for encouraging me to do the same,” he said during the Meet the Press forum of the Pangasinan Tri-Media Association last week where Braganza was also guest.

He acknowledged Braganza’s effort to provide quality and affordable college education to hundreds of poor Alaminos’ youths.

Earlier, Ruben Morante, president of the Philippine Accountancy and Science School (PASS) based in Alaminos told the media that he would sue Mayor Braganza and the PSU management for allegedly harassing him, operating the campus without necessary permit from the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and for committing anomalies in the remittance of profit.

Citing the local government code, Braganza maintained that the city government was allowed to put up its own college or university like what Urdaneta did with its own Urdaneta City University (UCU).

Braganza also said that the Constitution also provides that “education is a right not a privilege.”

“As mayor of Alaminos, I will see to it that this provision of the Constitution that says that it is the right of every Filipino citizen to have quality education is made a reality,” he said.

Braganza accused Morante of “extortion.” He revealed that the latter came to his office proposing to include PASS College in a multilateral agreement for the operation of PSU-Alaminos to make it legal.

“For obvious reasons, Morante would just want to partake of the 10 million pesos worth of scholarship grants we are providing to our poor but deserving children going to college. We will sue him definitely for maligning not me but the city of Alaminos,” he said.

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Police on jai-alai in Pangasinan

LINGAYEN -- Much talk about lately in Pangasinan is the numbers game jai-alai, with betting stations already being operated in at least 35 towns and cities.

Senior Superintendent Rosueto Ricaforte, chief of the Pangasinan police, said they cannot stop jai-alai operations as they are legal with business permits issued by the mayors.
However, Ricaforte stressed that they would not tolerate any illegal gambling activities in the province using jai-alai as front such as "bookies."

It was gathered that jai-alai betting stations being operated by Meridien in the province are located in Calasiao, Sta. Barbara, Bugallon, Labrador, Lingayen, Manaoag, Mangaldan, San Jacinto, San Fabian, San Carlos City, Malasiqui, Mapandan, Dasol, Agno, Infanta, Burgos, and Sta. Maria.

Also in San Manuel, Sual, Natividad, San Nicolas, Binmaley, Mangatarem, Urbiztondo, Basista, Laoac, Bolinao, Rosales, Dagupan City, Urdaneta City, Aguilar, San Quintin, Tayug, and Bautista.

Several arrests have been made by the police against persons who are diverting some bets collected for jai-alai to guerilla jueteng, an illegal numbers game.

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Ex-Pangasinan town mayor nabbed for estafa

DAGUPAN CITY -- The former vice mayor of Asingan town who has long been hiding from the law for the crime of large-scale estafa finally got collared.

Accordingly, she was first sighted inside the car showroom. But upon the request of the management, the arresting policemen waited for her to step out of the showroom and served the warrant of arrest.

Dagupan Police Chief Romeo Caramat Jr. identified the suspect as Mila Antonio, a private school teacher and a resident of Barangay Domampot, Asingan.

The warrant was issued by Judge Joven Costales of the Urdaneta City Regional Trial Court Branch 45. He recommended no bail for the suspect's temporary liberty.

Antonio was considered one of the most wanted persons in the Ilocos region, with a standing reward.

She was the vice mayor of Asingan town in 2007. She, however, never assumed office nor presided a single session of the Municipal Council, as she had already went into hiding because of the said case.

Allegedly, Antonio was able to convince her victims (mostly from Asingan town) to invest in her real property development business in Urdaneta City.

The amount shelled out by her victims had reached millions since year 2003, yet she had not shown or presented to the victims any update or development about their supposed business transactions

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Gorospe promises a supportive city council

Gorospe promises a supportive city council

By Virgilio Sar. Maganes

URDANETA CITY- City Vice Mayor Onofre “Bong” Gorospe assured that the Sangguniang Panlungsod of this city will give its all out support to the development agenda City Mayor Amadeo Gregorio “Bobom” Perez IV.

He said this to news men who covered the first session of the Sangguniang Panlungsod last July 5at the Session Hall of the Old City Hall. The agenda was to review the city council’s rules and the creation of various legislative committees.

“There is also a need to review and update resolutions and ordinances passed during the past Sangguniang Panlungsod, whether these were implemented or not,” he said.

Gorospe directed the Secretary of the Sangguniang Panlugsod Edilberto Belvis to consolidate the previous resolutions and ordinances, and if needed these will be revised or amended to match with the needs of the present time.

In his bid to have a working city legislature, he directed also the various chairmen of the committees to submit their plans and recommendations to further development agenda n the city.

“The city council’s committees must work for the interest and welfare of the city folk. We are here for public service and to help the city mayor (Bobom) pursue his planned programs and projects,’ he said.

Unlike during the past city council where the fist Monday of the month’s sessions were held at the Old City Hall , Gorospe said that all sessions now will be held at the New City Hall in Anonas village.

He promised also to work on a vibrant executive-legislative relationships.

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