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What’s the use of skill and competence if you don’t have moral compass–someone who thinks that everything has a grey area, someone who believes the end justifies the means, or someone who commits immoral and unethical acts?

Taxation plays a vital role in the economic growth of a country. Taxes, apart from raising revenue to finance government expenditures, can influence the patterns of consumption, production and distribution. Taxes, therefore, affect the economy in various ways.

I have been a Certified Public Accountant in public practice for the past 27 years and have seen people come and go at P&A Grant Thornton. My 16 year-stay in our branch offices, particularly the one in Davao, gave me the opportunity to get involved with our people’s employee lifecycle from attraction to separation.

Plot 1: NEJ, the protagonist, heard unknown voices and odd footsteps. Convinced that her family’s house is haunted, she went to find a local priest, but failed. More antagonistic events ensued, and then the plot twist came: Grace and her two children are the ghosts, and the voices and odd footsteps they’ve been hearing are from living people. They only realized that they’ve been dead when they were being cast away by a séance hired by the new owners of the house.

The prices of basic goods have increased steadily since the start of the year.

Last week, Filipino boxing legend Sen. Manny Pacquiao proved to the whole world once again that self-discipline, hard work, and perseverance could lead to success.

All things come to an end. The question is: when? As for everything else, we also seek closure in tax assessments.

I WAS very surprised about the final output of the Consultative Committee to Review the 1987 Constitution. The resulting proposed constitution is not federalism at all!