Filipino Boxer Manny Pacquiao Named The Philippines "Top Taxpayer"

The filipino boxing icon and Sarangani Rep . Manny Pacquiao has the largest paid tax in 2013, based on the list of individual taxpayer released by the Bureau of Internal Revenue .

Reports that based on the list of the Bureau of Internal Revenue or BIR , Pacquiao  taxes paid  reaching P163,841,853 based on " regular income tax payments as of November 24, 2014."


After Pacquiao, this were some list of largest payer of tax  complied with:

 Juanito Pornuevo Alcantara ( P99,612,000 ) 
Estelito Mendoza ( P73,185,375 ) 
Reynaldo Chico ( P67,340,888 ) 
Andrew Tan ( P67,184,002 ) 
Lorenzo Tan ( P60,894,276 ) 
Jose Alvarez ( P55,627,417 ) 
Vivian Azcona ( P51,617,174.69 ) 
 Oscar Reyes ( P51,440,314 ) 
Rafael Vicente Ayllon ( P50,088,841 ) 

Also included in the top 20 largest tax payer are:

San Miguel Corporation CEO Ramon Ang ( P46,471,324 )
The celebrity Piolo Pascual ( P42,533,158 ) 
John Lloyd Cruz ( P41,976,592 ) 
Kris Aquino ( P40,481,146 ) 
Sharon Cuneta ( P39,049,235 ) 
and Willy Nelson ( P38,305,824 ).

Manny Pacquiao, being the largest paid tax payer in the year 2013, it is also remembered that he was also charged by the BIR, for the incorect filling of income tax that sue him for tax evasion amounting  P2.2-billion .

The tax evasion of  Manny Pacquiao, case  gave numerous impression that pacquiao is being harassed by the Aquino government. BIR head Kim Henares, is leading the pursue of tax evasion on Pacquiao that leads to some misunderstanding on both parties.

In the House of Representative, some congressman, suggest a resolution that Manny Pacquiao, should be exempted in paying Tax, upon being the countries top promoter and boxing icon.

Here in the Philippines, a lot of tax payer are not paying the right tax, recently a lot of famous people, business tycon , celebrities are charged by the BIR for not paying and declaring the right income tax return.
source: GMA