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                    [Title] => Customs fails to meet 2014 annual revenue goal
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The Philippines collected P369.31 billion ($8.39 billion) of revenues in 2014, P38.78 billion below its target for the year, said the Bureau of Customs (BOC) today.

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The Bureau of Customs has shortened the free storage period for empty containers arriving in the country  to help decongest Manila’s ports.

[DatePublished] => 2015-01-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804021 [AuthorName] => Zinnia B. Dela Peña [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1365417 [Title] => BOC to share info with other gov’t agencies [Summary] =>

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) wants to work with other government agencies through information sharing and monitoring of imports as part of efforts to curb smuggling.

[DatePublished] => 2014-09-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1473425 [AuthorName] => Louella Desiderio [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/business/business-main/20140620/BOC-logo-4.jpg ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1318299 [Title] => BOC eyes 25% collection hike [Summary] =>

The Bureau of Customs (BOC), the government’s second largest revenue generating agency, expects collections to grow at an average of no more than 25 percent this year as it steps up monitoring and examination of goods entering the country.

[DatePublished] => 2014-05-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804021 [AuthorName] => Zinnia B. Dela Peña [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => http://i1280.photobucket.com/albums/a497/ph1lstarcom/bus2_zps74497e53.jpg ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1274717 [Title] => Looking for scapegoats [Summary] =>

In his New Year message, Noynoy Aquino claims his government is winning the fight against corruption. While I do not doubt the strength of his conviction, I have very serious reservations about the reliability of that conviction, and whether it is rooted in fact or fiction.

[DatePublished] => 2014-01-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136063 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1382205 [AuthorName] => Jerry Tundag [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1268338 [Title] => EDITORYAL - Ireporma ang Bureau of Customs [Summary] =>

BAGO na ang hepe ng Bureau of Customs. Mayroon nang magpapasan nang iniwang trabaho ni dating Customs chief Ruffy Biazon. Ang ipinalit kay Biazon ay si John Philip Sevilla, dating undersecretary ng Privatization Group and Corporate Affairs ng Department of Finance. Nag-aral siya ng Economics and Government sa Cornell University at may Master’s Degree in Public Affairs sa Princeton University.

[DatePublished] => 2013-12-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Punto Mo [SectionUrl] => punto-mo [URL] => http://imageshack.us/a/img13/8526/jbd7.gif ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 853235 [Title] => DOF, SMC in talks to enhance MRT-7 contract [Summary] =>

The Department of Finance (DOF) and San Miguel Holdings Corp., the proponent of Metro Rail Transit Line 7 (MRT-7) are discussing ways to enhance the existing concession agreement for the much delayed $1.2-billion rail project, a ranking finance official told The STAR.

[DatePublished] => 2012-09-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804708 [AuthorName] => Iris Gonzales [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 822015 [Title] => Department of Agriculture, hog growers reach compromise [Summary] =>

The Department of Agriculture (DA) will be given access to the inward foreign manifest (IFM) as a form of compromise between the government and hog raisers seeking increased protection from the proliferation of smuggled meat and meat products in the country.

[DatePublished] => 2012-06-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 394033 [Title] => Gov’t postpones sale of RPN-9, IBC-13 [Summary] => The sale of the two government-sequestered television networks, RPN-9 and IBC-13, have been shelved in favor of more valuable assets that could be privatized quickly.

Finance officials said efforts to sell the heavily-indebted networks would have to take a backseat to the work being done on other high-yiedling assets such as the government shares in San Miguel Corp. and Manila Electric Co. (Meralco).

Finance undersecretary John Philip Sevilla told reporters that the privatization of RPN-9 and IBC-13 is not likely to yield much anyway.
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