00:00In other news, home businesses or offices in high-rises usually hide their income as expense entries by cooking the books.
00:07A practice widely known, but then their bookkeepers or accountants get sloppy or careless,
00:12such as those in the 23 companies the BIR just caught and filed complaints against for tax evasion as our Luisa Irispe reports.
00:21The Bureau of Internal Revenue or BIR filed complaints against companies and corporations allegedly involved in tax evasion.
00:29These companies are believed to use fake or ghost receipts to remit lesser amounts of taxes.
00:35This is pursuant to our program na run after fake transactions dahil malaki ang nawawalang revenue sa ating gobyerno sa mga nandaraya ng buis sa pamamagitan ng paggamit ng mga ghost receipts.
00:48BIR filed tax evasion cases against 23 corporations, 56 corporate officers, and 17 public accountants.
00:56These companies are in the industry of construction, marketing, food, electronics, entertainment, manufacturing, and retail.
01:05In total, the government lost about 1.4 billion pesos as this scheme has been going on for about 20 years.
01:12The corporations will face penalties if proven guilty.
01:15Yung kailangan nilang bayaran yung buis na hindi nila binayaran dyan, that's the first primary, ano naman ng DIR, makakolekta dyan.
01:24Kung ano yung supposedly dapat binayaran mo, sisingilin namin, including penalties, interest.
01:30At pangalawa dyan, of course, dahil tasong kriminal ito, pagka napatunayan yan na talagang may liability sila at nakonvict sila,
01:38may pagkakakulong yan, posibleng pagkakakulong pag nakonvict sila ng korte.
01:42According to the DOJ, they will create a strong case against the respondents,
01:47with the pieces of evidence attached by the BIR to the complaint.
01:51We will be undergoing the normal case build-up to ascertain that there is sufficient documentary evidence
02:00and other supporting documents to build a strong case against all of these individuals' respondents in this case.
02:08Luisa Erispe from the National TV for a new and better Philippines.
