Ed Maranan to bcc amado.mendozajr@gmail.com date Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 12:03 PM subject: Lest we forget: Kleptocracy 101 mailed-by gmail.com signed-by gmail.com hide details 12:03 PM (1 hour ago) __________________________________________________________________________________________ Dear folks, More than 200 congressmen recently signed a petition passed around by Marcos loyalist Rep. Salvador Escudero for the remains of the late [...]
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Tax reform under GMA, Part III
Posted: January 4, 2011 in GMA, Legislators, Legislatures, Philippine politics, Political economy, Political institutions, tax reform, TaxationEarly in PGMA’s full term, a new sin tax law (that again failed to index tax rates to price changes) was passed together with a reformed VAT law (which increased the VAT rate from 10% to 12% and expanded VAT coverage) and a lateral attrition law (which provided a stick-and-carrot system to spur revenue collection) [...]
Individual legislators, legislative committees, and tax policymaking II
Posted: January 2, 2011 in Candidate-centered polities, CTRP, Legislative committees, Legislators, Legislatures, Philippine politics, Political institutions, tax reform, TaxationThis blog entry will illustrate the inordinate power and influence of legislative committees and powerful individual legislators in the policy process. In the case of tax policymaking, the officials and members of the House and Senate Ways and Means Committees would wield this disproportionate power relative to their respective legislative majorities. Comparatively speaking, officials of the [...]
Individual legislators, legislative committees and tax policy making
Posted: January 2, 2011 in Candidate-centered polities, CTRP, FVR, Legislative committees, Legislators, Legislatures, Philippine politics, Political institutions, TaxationThrough this blog entry and subsequent ones, I will continue sharing parts of a book on Philippine institutions and policy making which I started writing the middle of last year. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ In candidate-centered democratic polities, individual legislators exert an inordinately heavy influence on policy making. This is so since politicians need to develop personal reputations [...]
