Teachers hit BIR’s ‘excessive’ taxes

THE Teachers’ Dignity Coalition (TDC) has scored the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) over its aggressive taxation policies that include imposing taxes on bonuses and other incentives of government employees.

Benjo Basas, the group’s national chairman, on Friday said the policies were too much for them to take, adding that instead of collecting more taxes from them, “the government should find ways to provide state workers with higher salaries that would enable them and their families to live decently.”