Surigao Congressman Prospero Pichay, Jr. has been cleared of tax evasion charges by the Court of Tax Appeals en banc.
The full court came out with a 14-page resolution denying the petition of the Bureau of Internal Revenue to reverse the decision of its First Division issued in May 2018.
The complaint arose when the lawmaker was still the head of the Local Water Utilities Administration in 2009, noting the huge increase in his net worth compared to the previous year.BIR and DOJ prosecutors failed to establish that Pichay had received the preliminary and final assessment notices as required by the Tax Code.
Pichay said that as a government employee for the said year he was not required to submit an ITR under the substituted filing system.
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