CIGARETTE manufacturer Mighty Corp. said it was willing to cooperate with the government after being slapped a tax-evasion case worth P9.564 billion by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) on Wednesday.

“The company welcomes the filing by the BIR of the complaint as it provides us an opportunity to clear our names and show we violated no tax laws,” Mighty legal counsel Sigfrid Fortun said in a statement.

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