ROLL THE drums now… Cited as top real property taxpayers in the City of San Fernando:
Landco Pacific Corp. Singian Brothers Corp. S.L., Inc. Tan Song Bok Realty Development Corp. Spouses Melchor and Vilma Caluag. Pampanga’s Best, Inc.
St. Catherine Realty. Sweet Candy Crystal Integrated Sugar Mills Inc. SMC North Poultry Processing Plant. Interbev
Philippines. Sarimanok Feeds Company Inc.
Robina Corp. Pepsi-Cola Products Philippines Inc.
Luzviminda Landholdings Inc. San Miguel Yamamura Packaging Corp. for Metal Crown Plant. Beverage Packaging Specialist Inc.
With San Miguel Brewery Corp. receiving the Top Real Property Taxpayer Award and SM Prime Holdings at No. 2.
Recognized as the top payers for business tax:
Mandurriao Star Inc. San Miguel Yamamura Packaging Corp. for Metal Crown Plant and Food Manufacturing. Pepsi- Cola Products Philippines Inc. Zuellig Pharma Corp. SM Prime Holdings Inc. Manila North Tollways Corp. Waltermart Supermarket Inc. San Miguel Brewery Inc.
Honored with Top Business Taxpayer Award are San Miguel Foods Inc., Mega Asia Bottling Corp., Cosmos Bottling Corp., Kareila Management Corp. (S&R), Star Appliances Center Inc., UNAHCO Inc., Coca-Cola FEMSA Philippines Inc., PMFTC, Inc., United Laboratories Inc.
With The Super Value, Inc. (SM Supermarket) as the No. 1 Business Taxpayer.
The single proprietorship business owners acknowledged for paying their dues:
Marilou Espiritu. Josefina Siy. Edgardo Chua. Rico Urquico. Cresencio Gomez. Angel Wijangco. Romeo Sicat. John Darius Villanueva. Gary Laurence Patawaran. Marichu Choi.
“Bridges” in the development of the city, so they have all been called, whose “generosity” greatly contributed to the P725-million tax collection to date, or 56 percent of the P1.3-billion target for the year.
Indeed, living up to “Public- Private Partnership: A Catalyst for Economic Progress”that themed last Thursday’s Stakeholder’s Day and Recognition of Top Taxpayers ceremonies at the Heroes Hall.
Looking at this list of outstanding taxpayers, we cannot help but wonder why it did not carry even but one of those prominent names associated with successful business enterprises in the City of San Fernando, men and women who have lorded over the field of commerce, trade and industry here for so long that they have appropriated for, indeed, arrogated unto themselves the very economy of the city and the greater part of Pampanga. We see them in every business endeavour, in ostentatious display of wealth and power, always under the bright lights of media.
That we don’t find them in the list of top taxpayers…is anybody’s guess. And for the Bureau of Internal Revenue to determine.
