The battered Department of Education (DepEd) got another black eye last week following Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian’s revelation that a little over half of the P13.69 billion allocated for the senior high school voucher program (SHS-VP) did not go to the poor students for whom it was intended, instead going to those whose families could afford their education, resulting in “wastage and leakage” of government funds. Introduced in 2015, the SHS-VP was designed primarily to help the
April is tax season and the unhappiest time of the year for most people in productive occupations except, perhaps, for those who have made a profession out of official extortion. For them, this is their time to shine. Operating on the simple principle that God helps those who help themselves, they gladly offer a devil’s bargain to big taxpayers: the overall size of what you have to pay on taxes to the government can go down if you give the tax official you’re dealing with a cut.There is no getting around this deal because of two tried-and-tested principles. The first is that
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