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(From Manila Standard)
Investigators have found what could be the first of several links between the P431 million income tax diversion scam and an P8 million value-added tax scam involving a congressman's restaurant chain.
A source in the National Bureau of Investigation said over the weekend that the modus operandi used in the Binangonan, Rizal branch of LandBank and Navotas branch of United Coconut Planters Bank or Cocobank were "virtually the same."
"Both use the same modus operandi. They involved tax payments being diverted to remote branches of banks allowed to accept payments," said the source, who asked not to be identified.
But the source admitted that there was no indication as of now that the same people were behind the two scams.
Victimized were nine large taxpayers who paid taxes through LandBank, and Tequila Joe's and its sister firm California Pizza Kitchen, owned by Rep. Jose Miguel Zubiri, that paid VAT through ...