LIST: 39 celebrities among BIR's Top 500 individual taxpayers

The Bureau of Internal Revenue early this year declared Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao as the top individual taxpayer in the Philippines for settling P163,841,853 in “regular income tax payments as of November 24, 2014.”

 

The other Filipino celebrities on the BIR's Top 500 list, according to the latest Tax Watch ad on celebrity taxpayers from the Department of Finance, are Piolo Pascual (14th) and John Lloyd Cruz (15th), as well as Megastar Sharon Cuneta (19th) and Kapuso TV host Willie Revillame (20th).

 

Host and presidential sister Kris Aquino, who led the list of individual taxpayers in 2013, slipped to 16th place in the latest BIR list.

 

Other celebrities in the top 100 bracket are Anne Curtis, Judy Anne Santos-Agoncillo, Coco Martin, Vic Sotto, Ramon S. Fernandez, Kim Atienza, Michael V., and Sarah Geronimo.

 

Actors, TV hosts, news anchors

Following them are actors, TV hosts and news anchors, such as Dingdong Dantes, Mike Enriquez, Bea Alonzo, Charo Santos, Boy Abunda, Ogie Alcasid, Derek Ramsay, Angelica Panganiban, Robin Padilla, Noli de Castro, Joey de Leon, Kim Chiu, Vice Ganda, KC Concepcion, Toni Gonzaga, Angel Locsin, Luis Manzano, AiAi delas Alas, Jessica Soho, Lauren Dyogi, Mel Tiangco, Daniel Padilla, Bong Revilla, Chris Tiu, and Vhong Navarro.

 

Apart from the top individual taxpayers, the ad also shows the top endorsers of 2013 – according to Inquirer BusinessFriday and Stratpolls Inc. – who are not in the BIR Top taxpayer list. 

 

Among them are Carmina Villaroel, Zoren Legaspo, Marian Rivera, Richard Yap, Paulo Avelino, Enrique Gil, Kathryn Bernardo, Maja Salvador, Julia Montes, and Jodi Sta. Maria. – Bianca Rose Dabu/VS, GMA News