Franklin Drilon, has been pushing<\/a><\/em><\/strong> to cash the P50 billion (\u20ac892.4 million) POGO\u2019s owe in unpaid taxes in order to fund Covid-19 recovery programmes.<\/p>\n\n\n\nNow De Lima has asked the bodies involved to clarify how the issues were being dealt with to decide if the Congress should implement laws against POGOs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
She reportedly said that if there is evidence against the offshore operators, questions should be raised over whether they should be allowed to continue to operate legally in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Senator Leila De Lima is proposing Congress reconsider offshore operators’ position in the Philippines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Senator Leila De Lima has initiated a Senate resolution to investigate Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs) due to alleged illegal activities and significant unpaid tax liabilities. This legislative scrutiny, supported by Senator Franklin Drilon's push to collect P50 billion in outstanding taxes, could lead to new regulatory frameworks or a re-evaluation of POGOs' legal operational status within the Philippines.","focusai_entities":"Leila De Lima, Franklin Drilon, Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs), Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp (PAGCOR), Department of Finance, Congress","focusai_location":"Philippines","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"POGO Regulatory Outlook","query":"What specific legislative amendments or enforcement actions are anticipated from the Philippines Congress and PAGCOR if the investigation substantiates claims of illegal activities and tax evasion by POGOs?"},{"label":"Tax Liability Impact","query":"How would the collection of the P50 billion in unpaid POGO taxes impact the financial stability of the affected operators and the broader iGaming sector's contribution to the Philippine economy?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,158,16333],"tags":[225,128,15789],"class_list":["post-7391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legislation-news","category-slider-home","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-legislation","tag-philippines","tag-pogos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7391"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777008665,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7391\/revisions\/777008665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}