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==Pacquiao told: Submit tax records or face jail time==
'''Palace: No Corona connection in BIR actions vs Pacquiao'''
*Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/manila/local-news/2012/03/30/pacquiao-told-submit-tax-records-or-face-jail-time-213928
*Source: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/253395/news/nation/palace-no-corona-connection-in-bir-actions-vs-pacquiao
*Friday, March 30, 2012
*March 31, 2012 12:48pm
:by  Virgil Lopez/ECV/Sunnex
:by  LBG, GMA News






MANILA -- Sarangani Representative and Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao can get away with contempt charges filed by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) if he can submit documents in connection to the huge drop in his tax remittances.
Malacañang insisted Saturday there is no connection between the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s tax pursuit against boxing champ and Sarangani Rep. Emmanuel “Manny” Pacquiao with his failure to join the 188 lawmakers who impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona last December.
 
Pacquiao, who has since cried foul over the case, was challenged by BIR Commissioner Kim Henares to do just that after the agency pushed for a “realistic assessment” of his tax liability.
 
“The sooner he submits, the sooner this controversy will die down. We haven’t mentioned of any liability yet, that’s why we are investigating him,” Henares said Thursday.
 
“We have to see the gravity of the violation. As of now, we are not even talking or thinking of tax evasion. We are only asking him to submit the documents,” she added.
 
Henares belied Pacquiao’s claims that he is being harassed by the BIR after its regional office in Sarangani claimed he rebuffed the agency’s summons in March to submit certain documents pertaining to his tax returns.
 
The Sarangani lawmaker’s failure to obey summons from the BIR prompted Regional Director Rozil Lozares to file the case, citing Section 266 of the National Internal Revenue Code.
 
Penalties for this offense could range from a fine of P5,000 to P10,000 and imprisonment of one year to two years.
 
Lozares said the tax bureau issued a subpoena duces tecum (or subpoena for production of evidence) in January directing Pacquiao to present income-related documents but the lawmaker supposedly failed to appear before them.
 
Pacquiao said he should no longer be taxed for earnings from his fights abroad consistent to the Philippines-US tax treaty but Malacañang surmised that the investigation will have something to do with his local endorsements.
 
In the BIR’s list of top 500 taxpayers, the eight-division world champion ranked first in 2008 for paying P125 million but he tumbled down to 113th place in 2010.
 
“Why the sudden drop?” Henares asked.
 
Taking the cudgels for Pacquiao is Senator Ramon Revilla Jr., who criticized BIR for showing disrespect to “someone who we all consider as a contemporary hero.”
 
"If the BIR is certain that Manny committed an error, then just take the necessary actions and file the necessary charges. Why announced it on the papers?" Revilla said.
 
The senator also advised Pacquiao to take the issue “with a grain of salt” and direct his attention to the upcoming fight against Timothy Bradley on June 9.
 
But Henares said that Pacquiao should blame himself for the adverse publicity that this controversy brought him, including supposed loss of endorsement deals abroad, saying publicity was fueled by his own camp.
 
The BIR chief said the BIR in Koronadal City never made mention of him during press conference of its tax campaign.
 
But the local press got wind of Pacquiao’s failure to obey summons and inquired from the regional director, who was forced to confirm it.


Deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte said all the BIR wants from Pacquiao are tax-related documents, adding there is “nothing more to it.”


“May nagsasabing connected ito sa impeachment, walang ganoon” she said on government-run dzRB radio, adding that Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima himself had said there was no harassment against Pacquiao in the BIR’s actions.


Earlier, Sen. Joker Arroyo questioned the BIR’s action, asking if it was because Pacquiao did not sign the articles of impeachment against Corona.


But House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. said Arroyo’s suspicion was ridiculous.


The Philippine Daily Inquirer cited a text message from Pacquiao confirming he was not there when the articles of impeachment were signed.


He also said he hoped the case that the BIR brought against him was not related to his failure to join the House majority in impeaching Corona.


Pacquiao was training for his bout with Mexican Juan Miguel Marquez late last year, when the BIR demanded to see his tax returns.


At the time, the BIR’s regional office in Central Mindanao filed a complaint against him for failure to submit complete tax records for 2010.


Pacquiao has reportedly called President Benigno Aquino III for help and asked him to fire BIR Central Mindanao Director Rozil Lozares for harassing him.


Meanwhile, Pacquiao is now preparing for his fight against American Timothy Bradley for his welterweight crown on June 9.


==Peeved, Pacquiao wants to pay taxes elsewhere==
==Peeved, Pacquiao wants to pay taxes elsewhere==
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