Upon COVID-19: Time to tax the super-rich

COMMENTARY

The Philippines has never had a wealth tax. For as long as there has been a tax system in the country, taxes have been collected from what people pay for what they consume or from what they earn.

News

Duterte gov’t giving up Php667-B in potential COVID response funds to boost corporate profits

May 20, 2020

PH economy was already slowing – COVID-19 just made it worse

May 7, 2020

After 7 weeks of lockdown: Meager cash aid puts HHs below official poverty line

May 5, 2020

Oil tax hike insensitive and will make poor Filipinos suffer more

May 5, 2020

POGOs not an essential sector, only 0.23% of gov’t annual tax revenues

May 4, 2020

ECQ disrupts livelihood of 19M:

Millions of working people left behind by poor gov’t response

May 1, 2020

Gov’t should deliver cash subsidies it owes 3.8M poor families in GCQ areas

April 30, 2020

On 7th week of lockdown: 10M worker and informal earner households still waiting for emergency subsidies

April 28, 2020

Features

COMMENTARY

There’s more than enough money for all the COVID-19 response we need – the Duterte administration just has to take the side of the people and stop being so scared of the rich.

Why make the poor pay for COVID-19 response?

May 24, 2020

COMMENTARY

In this kind of situation, you don’t obsess about fuel-efficient driving or not red-lining the tachometer or limiting the car’s mileage – you step on the gas. Glorifying ‘financial strength’ is stepping on the brakes.

Financial strength, development weakness

May 14, 2020

FEATURES

From the outset of the Duterte government’s military lockdown as its response to the spread of the coronavirus, it has directed the continuous flow of food commodities, along with medicines and other essentials. Food is inarguably essential to people’s survival during a pandemic and in its socioeconomic aftermath.

Why can’t food self-sufficiency be our new normal?

May 8, 2020

NETWORKS | EDUCATORS’ FORUM FOR DEVELOPMENT

We are in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic to which our government can only muster a militaristic response instead of strengthening our health system and relay incoherent reports, and at times, disinformation.

ABS-CBN shutdown a threat to press freedom, a bane to transformative education

May 8, 2020

FEATURES

The Philippines has to improve the current state of infrastructure especially in the context of COVID-19: one that supports a strong public health system and the stable production of the nation’s needs in order to withstand and battle a pandemic.

The fate of BBB in the time of COVID-19

May 7, 2020

STATEMENT | The pandemic is a real problem, but so is the Duterte administration’s using this for its own authoritarian ends.

IBON decries shutdown of ABS-CBN

May 6, 2020

Bird Feed

Xandra Liza C. Bisenio

To give or not to give SAP tranche 2

Jose Lorenzo Lim

Giving traditional Chinese medicine a bad name

Rosario Guzman

In the time of COVID: Hello, Earth

Xandra Liza C. Bisenio

The pre-COVID-19 plight of the poor and government’s old ways

Jose Lorenzo Lim

Where’s our water?

In The News

Infographics

Millions left behind during lockdown

Infoposts

Assist displaced workers and help them recover

Photoquotes

IBON Executive Director on the humanitarian crisis in the country

Topics

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