President Duterte is the LGUs’ only hope to resolve the issue on National Tax Allotment and we are fortunate that he was a former Mayor and he knows the plight of LGUs. This will be one of Duterte’s greatest legacies for the country. It will not bode well if he just passes this problem on to the next administration. 

In the SOLGEN’s prayer, they asked the Court to “Clarify and include in the dispositive that the LGUs would start receiving the adjusted IRA in 2022.” The SOLGEN, thus, admits in its Prayer that the Court has, in fact, not included in its final dispositive ruling that its decision will be implemented only in 2022.  

The Supreme Court has denied the SOLGEN’s Motion for reconsideration and has issued its ‘Entry of Final Judgment’ stating therein that its July 3, 2018 en banc decision has already “lapsed into finality” on June 10, 2019. The Court also denied the LGUs’ claim for payment on the “IRA arrears” for the period 1991 to June 10, 2019.

Is People’s Initiative even legal?  YES!  Sec. 2¹, Article XVII of the 1987 Constitution guarantees the right of the people to amend it.  And although said provision is not self-executory, Congress passed an enabling law, RA 6735² in 1989.  Otherwise, if up to now there is still no enabling law after 31 years, then Congress has continuously been terribly remiss in complying with this Constitutional mandate to provide for the implementation of the right of the people to initiate amendments to the so-called “People Power Charter” wherein the sovereign will of the people is supreme as enshrined it the Preamble itself!  Even in the hierarchy of the three ways provided under ‘Amendments or Revisions’, people’s initiative is the supreme mode than through a constituent assembly or constitutional convention.

We urgently need to redistribute wealth to all parts of the country so that services are equally delivered even in the far-flung areas now!

This year marks the 27th Anniversary of the LGC and by year 2022, it will be the LGC’s 30th year to coincide with the last year of President Du30’s term.

#IRAitamaNaSa2019!

#IRAitamaNaSa2019!

#IRAitamaNaSa2019!

2019 is indeed the reckoning year for the implementation of the SC decision promulgated this year and the FY 2019 NEP should be modified to comply with the magistrate’s ruling.

Case study: Mandanas and Garcia petitions

BIR does not include these BOC collections as part of their certification.