The country’s two biggest tax-collection agencies have been tasked with helping probe the alleged collusion between private rice importers and agriculture cooperatives that act as dummies to avoid payments of import duties slapped on the staple.
In a statement on Friday, the Department of Finance (DOF) said Secretary Carlos Dominguez III recently ordered Revenue Commissioner Caesar Dulay and Bureau of Customs chief Rey Leonardo Guerrero to assist the Department of Agriculture (DA) in its investigation of the said practice following the temporary suspension of sanitary and phytosanitary import clearance (SPSIC) issuance to farmers’ cooperatives and irrigators’ associations.
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