PhilHealth may face additional tax cases – Lacson
Senator Panfilo M. Lacson today said Philippine Health Insurance Corporation officials face possible additional charges in the on-going Senate Committee of the Whole public hearing on alleged widespread corruption in that agency.This refers to their reported failure to collect taxes on cash advances or coronavirus disease funds given to hospitals, dialysis centers and other health care institutions under the interim reimbursement mechanism .
According to Renato Limsiaco Jr., PhilHealth senior vice president for fund management sector, they did not know that they have to deduct these fees from the IRM funds. “Ang masama dito, they already advanced to the BIR ang dapat withhold nila. Ang tanong ko, saan nyo kinuha ang sabi nyang P152 million na dapat equivalent sa withheld na taxes? Sabi nya sa capital outlay. So that’s criminal,’’ he said.
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