SMS Text Tax: for the People or for 2010 Elections?

More funds to the education sector plus the computerization of public schools, these are some of the things that our congressmen promise to bring once the tax on text messaging is implemented. They say that it is feasible since the Philippines is the text capital of the world. The evidence of this fact is the [...]

Milking the Cows Dry

It seems that the government, or the politicians in particular are in a frenzy in collecting more funds for the government just a year away from the 2010 elections. Two of the tax measures that I heard in the news are the tax on SMS messaging and the proposal to reduce income tax in exchange [...]