Farcical ‘one-China’ policy
BLURBAL THRUSTS |
Louie Logarta |
It is the classic case of “while the cat is away, the mice will play” in real life.
A thoroughly disgusted and disappointed Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim has gone to court seeking relief from the implementation of an ordinance granting overly-generous tax breaks to the multi-billion cellular telephone firm Smart Telecommunications.
Declared respondents in the suit filed recently before the Manila Regional Trial Court were Manila Vice Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso as well as several members of the City Council who had passed Ordinance No. 8229 exempting Smart from paying franchise and real property taxes on its telecommunications equipment in cell sites situated within city boundaries..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110529com4.html
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