Biazon should be steadfast N.O . N.O.N.S.E.N.S.E Jacinto ‘Jing’ Paras 09/25/2011

Biazon should be steadfast

N.O . N.O.N.S.E.N.S.E

Jacinto ‘Jing’ Paras

09/25/2011
Last Thursday, Biazon , the new Commissioner of Customs, made a big bang by announcing that he had filed with the Department of Justice a complaint against Petronas Energy Philippines over the questionable importation of LPG resulting in a loss of revenue to government in the amount of a billion pesos. We could have said thank you for the good job except for the question of, why only against Petronas? Why not against Shell Pilipinas which had been caught several times for smuggling at the Port of Batangas and involving several billions of pesos that were lost in government revenues due to said smuggling activities?

Is Shell so influential and powerful that the Bureau of Customs (BoC) now under the leadership of Biazon cannot touch? Is it because of the interference of a Malacañang official by the name of Secretary Rene Almendras that Biazon is not acting against Shell? It has been said that former Commissioner Alvarez refused to file a complaint against Shell and collect from the oil firm the sum of P1.5 billion as excise taxes and VAT despite the very clear findings of smuggling and the subsequent recommendation from the BoC at the Port of Batangas to file charges and collect the said taxes from Shell..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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