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Subject: Richard Gomez charged with tax evasion Author: m.i.b. - Celebrity files / Inside Buzz [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 09:55:40 10/27/05 Thu Celebrity Files Richard charged with tax evasion Richard Gomez is the first show biz “big fish” to be charged with tax evasion. The Bureau of Internal Revenue has charged him with four counts of tax evasion. Bail was set at P20,000 for each of the four counts of tax evasion. If convicted, the ally of former President Joseph Estrada could land in prison with a maximum sentence of 10 years. The BIR said one strong piece of evidence against Gomez was that he tried to belatedly file his income tax for the years 2000 to 2003. Gomez said he had filed his income tax for 2002, but he failed to prove it. The BIR said its records showed that the only transaction the actor made with their office was the payment of P786,975 in documentary stamp tax on Nov. 6, 2003 for the acquisition of a Forbes Park property for P52 million. Although Gomez submitted an income tax return for 2002 amounting to P1.5 million, he did not declare his source of income for the acquisition of his P52-million mansion, the BIR said. It said the purchase of the expensive property itself was strong proof of the high earnings of Gomez. BIR investigators also learned that from 2000 to 2003, Gomez made five movies, appeared in four fashion shows for Bench, an apparel company, appeared in TV shows, and was a product endorser for Squibb Vitamin E and Bench Apparel. The other celebrities who have pending tax-evasion cases before the justice department are singer Regine Velasquez and actress Judy Ann Santos. Regine recently paid her overdue tax liability but she not yet completely off the hook. http://www.planetphilippines.com/current/features_current/feature5.html -------- > Music Inside Buzz : Why did Regine pay for overdue taxes when our investigations learned that she doesn't owe the B.I.R. for anything like it? So why did Regine pay for what she didn't owe? Well, that calls for another kind of investigation that goes a little way out of the bounds of our basketball court. But if you're willing to hear theories - Sounds like a frame-up is in progress against her. Poor Richard Gomez. I mean, 'rich' Richard Gomez. It looked like his manager was going to get smashed but instead it was him? Wanna bet that his manager gets off the hook? Because if you consider what we know- that there are media practitioners involve in all this B.I.R. monkey business then the last thing they want is one of their own peers getting caught in this media fraud intended only for "selected" celebrities and personalities picked by u-know-who. Music Inspector Mills http://insidebuzz.tripod.com [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Ex-Laguna mayor, wife acquitted of tax evasion Author: mmJun- music report to music fans [Edit] Date Posted: 15:24:33 12/02/05 Fri Ex-Laguna mayor, wife acquitted of tax evasion First posted 07:36pm (Mla time) Nov 30, 2005 By Edson Tandoc Jr. / Inquirer News Service +++++++++++++++++++ mmJun says ++++++++++ Ain't it amazing, Regine fans?! This was filed against them a decade ago! So I ask you.. why did Regine Velasquez pay the B.I.R. money so fast?! Especially knowing that she doesn't owe them anything. Why didn't she wait a decade like this person did? And you'd think he was innocent?! I'm just asking you what you think.. everyone knows who he is, no? And ain't it amazing? Unless whoever is giving Regine some of her advice ( and you can bet Abunda is one of them in there ) about handling the B.I.R. isn't doing it for her best advantage or benefit. For one thing.. the B.I.R. is a mess. So no doing business with them till they get their mess together. Regine is said to be making a deal to pay them 1o million more?! Take good advice- don't give them another peso till they prove they aren't messing themselves up. Since the B.I.R. commissioner and the B.I.R. person responsible for making those false charges against Regine both RESIGNED!! They passed their illegal doings to the next commissioner who is doing what he can ONLY to save the B.I.R.'s face. Can you imagine what can happen when the public realized that a lowly shameless showbiz media publicist can influenced a major gov't agency like the B.I.R.?! What do you think would happen? Think about that one! ( think harder ) And another thing.. if Richard Gomez manager can escape being charged for tax-evasion.. (linked to Boy Abunda, by the way) and this Antonio Sanchez can get away with it.. then how come those who are innocent like Regine and most probably Judy Ann Santos are being smashed so easily by it? How can they get charged but the others not be? Here's the real question- how come the managers are getting away since they are the ones who would know and are the ones who would have given accountants the permission to evade paying proper taxes in the first place?! Its not possible.. unless they are screwing their own talents. Or making deals to save their own necks while their talents fry. ++++++++ unbelievable but true +++++++++ FORMER Calauan, Laguna mayor Antonio Sanchez, who is serving several life terms for rape and murder, was acquitted along with his wife of tax evasion charges filed against them more than a decade ago. Pasig City Regional Trial Court Branch 264 Judge Leoncio Janolo Jr. acquitted the couple for lack of evidence. Sanchez is serving several life terms for the rape-slay of Mary Eileen Sarmenta and the killing of her friend Allan Gomez in June 1993, as well as for the killing of a political leader and his son in Laguna in April 1991. The Bureau of Internal Revenue filed the tax evasion cases against Sanchez and his wife Editha in 1995, the same year Sanchez was convicted in the rape-slay case. The BIR accused the couple of trying to evade the payment of eight million pesos. ================================= Actress charged in court for tax evasion First posted 06:19pm (Mla time) Dec 02, 2005 By Armand Nocum / Inquirer THE Department of Justice (DoJ) filed tax evasion charges against actress Judy Ann Santos, saying it had established "reasonable ground" to believe that she cheated the government of 2.7 million pesos in taxes. DoJ Prosecutor Olivia Torrevillas, who filed the case with the Court of Tax Appeals last Thursday, recommended 20,000 pesos bail for Santos. Santos filed a motion for reconsideration with the DOJ the same day the case was filed in court. The complaint said Santos filed a "false and fraudulent" income tax return in 2002, claiming her gross income was only 8,033,332 pesos. But Bureau of Internal Revenue investigators said they found that the movie and television actress' actual income for that year was 16,396,902 pesos, resulting in a tax deficiency of 2.7 million pesos, plus interest and penalties. ----------------- > mmJun : The question the media won't bother asking is this- who filed a flase and frausulent income tax return for Judy Ann in 2002! Because its obvious from just the way she reacted to the first announcement of the tax-evasion charges to the things she said that she had no idea nor how to do her own income tax filing. So that bothers me.. that the media (and many of them know better) isn't doing the kind of investigation and research required in filing these kind of stories. Because this is NOT a showbiz PR type article. Right? This ain't promoting no movie or tv drama show. This is serious stuff. And is tied to the problems of the song bird with the B.I.R. How are they being able to get away with all this? Don't you wonder? Nothing to do with just showbiz anymore. ----------- > Judy Ann is being set-up to save the necks of those involve. Just like the song bird was.. And the known Regine detractor was very much involve. Ain't it amazing how a major gov't agency like the B.I.R. can easily be manipulated like you are seeing happen right before our very eyes.. >;-( < ------------------------------------------- rv_thebirdnest · Regine Velasquez Fans Bird Nest Group! http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/rv_thebirdnest/ ------------------------------------------- > http://insidebuzz.tripod.com [ Post a Reply to This Message ]