Marcos spox tells Isko camp: Address tax concerns to BIR

GUIGUINTO, Bulacan — Manila Mayor Isko Moreno's camp should address their concerns on the tax liability, worth at least P200 billion, of the Marcos family to the Bureau of Internal Revenue, Bongbong Marcos’ spokesman said.

In an ambush interview, attorney Vic Rodriguez was asked to comment on Moreno's stated intention to retrieve the Marcos’ estate tax debt and use it to provide aid should he win in Eleksyon 2022.

“They should address that to the Bureau of Internal Revenue. All his queries should be addressed in the Bureau of Internal Revenue,” Rodriguez said.

Rodriguez had said the pieces of property which were the subject of the tax case were still under litigation.

In 1994, the Court of Appeals ruled that “the deficiency assessments for estate and income tax made upon the petitioner and the estate of the deceased President Marcos have already become final and unappealable, and may thus be enforced by the summary remedy of levying upon the properties” of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos.

Moreno’s party, the Aksyon Demokratiko, has asked BIR Commissioner Ceasar Dulay if he demanded the Marcos family to pay the tax liability.

Aksyon chairman Ernest Ramel said the BIR should renew written demands to the Marcos family to pay what they owe. — BM, GMA News