Informal Sector

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(The Philippine Star), 9 Nov 2019 MANILA, Philippines — State-run Social Security System (SSS) said yesterday it is considering the creation of a special program which will cater to Filipinos employed in the informal sector.

27 Sept 2019 – HOW ARE THEY COPING NOW, THE INFORMALS DISPLACED BY CLEARING OPERATIONS? The public, long-suffering from disruptions by sidewalk vendors and other informal workers, applauded clearing operations by new-found enthusiasm of local governments. Read more. Where are these informals now? Have they been provided with alternative selling and operations spaces? How are…

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By Czeriza Valencia (The Philippine Star), October 1, 2016 MANILA, Philippines – The Community Mortgage Program (CMP), a government financing scheme that enables organized informal settler families to purchase land, is no longer meeting the needs of its target beneficiaries mainly because of the high equity requirements for acquisition, the Philippine Institute of Development Studies…

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An estimated number of 60,000 families reside along Manila’s creeks and waterways MANILA, Philippines – The Department of the Interior and Local Government relocated about 4,400 informal settler families (ISFs) living along major esteros (creeks) and waterways in Metro Manila.

(Last of two parts) Ronald has been working for a real estate company for 14 years, but he was never quite sure if he was ever on the employees’ list.

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The number of self-employed Filipinos is continuously increasing, according to year-on-year data from the Social Security System (SSS). From 19.35 percent in 2009, the rate increased by 0.34 percent to 19.69 percent in 2010 before becoming 20.06 percent in 2011.

MANILA: The Philippine government plans to move about 100,000 squatters from their homes on crucial waterways in Manila by June as a flood control measure and for their own safety, an official said Saturday.

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MANILA, Philippines – The Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF) has offered a $3-million grant to improve the lives of some 6,000 informal garbage workers in the Philippines.

MANILA – The Philippine government said yesterday it plans to register an estimated 17 million undocumented workers so it can better address their needs.

THE Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) would go after public market vendors and smaller business establishments to ensure that they are complying with the mandatory issuance of official receipt.

IN SECURING the P1.4-billion reward for helping to depose former President Joseph Estrada, Social Welfare Secretary Corazon Soliman’s Code-NGO was able to release P100 million a year for its poor members, the Freedom from Debt Coalition disclosed at a House hearing on Friday.

MANILA, Philippines – Simplifying business operations increases productivity, reduces costs and heightens efficiency. This allows entrepreneurs to free up and manage their time better, so they can pursue their hobbies and other passions.

The Caucus of Development NGO Networks (Code-NGO) formed by known backers of both former President Arroyo and President Aquino and which acted as the secretariat of Kompil II, the umbrella organization which called for the removal, impeachment and ouster of former President Joseph Estrada, and its bank partner, Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. (RCBC) of the…

THE Supreme Court (SC) has stopped the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) from implementing a 20-percent final withholding tax (FWT) on P35-billion worth of Poverty Eradication and Alleviation Certificates (PEACe) bonds that matured on Tuesday.

While debates raged yesterday over the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s (BIR) belated decision to slap a 20 percent tax on the controversial Poverty Eradication and Alleviation Certificate (PEACe) bonds that matured yesterday needing the government to shell out P35 billion to pay for the P10 billion borrowings 10 years ago, the architect of the so-called…

Eight banks have asked the Supreme Court to stop the government from imposing and collecting a 20-percent final withholding tax on P35 billion worth of PEACe Bonds due today.

Govt wants P5 billion as certificates mature today THIS is one anniversary that parties to issuance of controversial bonds ten years ago would rather not offer a toast to, even the buyers of the certificates who made a windfall from the purchase.

PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III’s House allies on Sunday were accused of manipulating a probe of the P10-billion Poverty Eradication and Alleviation Certificates or Peace Bonds that taxpayers must begin paying for on Oct. 16 this year, and at a total cost of P35 billion.

CODE-NGO TO COST GOV’T P35B BY OCT. 18 MATURITY The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) said it would impose a 20 percent final withholding tax on the controversial P35 billion PEACe Bonds, which the government will be required to pay on Oct. 18 when its 10-year maturity falls due, the Department of Finance (DoF) said…

MANILA, Philippines – More than P5.923-billion worth of housing units and other assets owned by the Home Guarantee Corp. (HGC) are being occupied for free by informal settlers and evicted former owners, according to a 2010 Commission on Audit (COA) report.

THE number of Filipinos working in the informal sector fell over the past decades but poverty reductions remained stagnant because of low wages of employed workers, according to an Asian Development Bank (ADB) study.

About 25,000 housing units in relocation sites of the National Housing Authority (NHA) will be awarded to informal settlers in Quezon City, particularly those occupying danger zones such as sidewalks, roadways, waterways and areas under bridges and transmission lines and over water pipelines.

A study by the Asian Development Bank found that the Philippines has one of the highest tax rates in Asia, but the country’s untaxed underground economy is also among the largest in the world.

Last Monday’s editorial in The Philippine STAR entitled “Encroachment” struck a raw nerve on the issue of squatters building illegal structures along the Manggahan spillway. Let me print that portion for clarity: The encroaching structures were supposed to include not only shanties, especially those along riverbanks, but also real estate development that blocked or covered…