{"id":777011541,"date":"2023-11-30T08:36:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T11:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777011541"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:05:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:05:32","slug":"pagcor-wins-appeal-in-tax-under-collection-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/pagcor-wins-appeal-in-tax-under-collection-case","title":{"rendered":"PAGCOR wins appeal in tax under-collection case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Commission on Audit (COA) has ruled in favour of PAGCOR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The Philippines.-\u00a0<strong>The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR)\u00a0<\/strong>has won a legal victory appeal against charges pertaining to alleged tax discrepancies involving two casino operators.\u00a0The Commission on Audit (COA) has overturned notices of charge (NCs) totalling PHP38.16m issued against the regulator in 2016. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The charges accused PAGCOR of failing to collect franchise taxes from\u00a0<strong>Frontier Wish International Limited (FWIL)<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Palmgold International Limited<\/strong>. COA stressed its absence of duty in tax collection, referencing a 2017 Supreme Court ruling, asserting that COA&#8217;s role doesn&#8217;t include tax collection, a responsibility vested in the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Malaya, auditors revealed that the amounts, PHP28.525m from FWIL and PHP9.635m from Palmgold, should have been deducted from the casinos&#8217; income shares but were instead paid to them.\u00a0The COA also lifted notices of charge against PAGCOR regarding PHP41.5m in alleged uncollected franchise taxes from Frontier Wish (PHP21.15m) and Gold Coast Leisure World Corp (PHP20.35m).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:&nbsp;<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/pagcor-garners-highest-governance-score-in-2022\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PAGCOR receives highest governance score in 2022 report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commission on Audit (COA) has ruled in favour of PAGCOR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":777008355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) has successfully appealed charges from the Commission on Audit (COA) totaling PHP79.66 million, related to alleged uncollected franchise taxes from casino operators. COA's ruling clarified that tax collection is the responsibility of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), not COA, citing a 2017 Supreme Court decision. This outcome absolves PAGCOR of the financial liability and clarifies regulatory oversight boundaries within the Philippine gaming sector.","focusai_entities":"PAGCOR, Commission on Audit, Frontier Wish International Limited, Palmgold International Limited, Bureau of Internal Revenue, Supreme Court, Gold Coast Leisure World Corp","focusai_location":"Philippines","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.85), investor_analyst (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on BIR's Role?","query":"How will this COA ruling and the referenced Supreme Court decision influence the Bureau of Internal Revenue's enforcement strategies and collection mechanisms for gaming franchise taxes moving forward?"},{"label":"PAGCOR's Governance Implications?","query":"Given PAGCOR's recent high governance score, how does this legal victory further solidify its operational integrity and regulatory standing within the Philippine gaming landscape?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,158,16333],"tags":[405],"class_list":["post-777011541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-slider-home","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-pagcor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777011541","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777011541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777011541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777011569,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777011541\/revisions\/777011569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777008355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777011541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777011541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777011541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}