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Policy & Regulation
Analysis of policy and regulatory shifts, compliance tightening, and policy decisions that reshape industries and rewrite the rules of participation. Focused on structural consequences, not headlines.
Marcos’s drought order leans on importers for the rice buffer stock and on households for water, with no agency or budget named for the filters.
Travel tax abolition moves TIEZA, CHED and NCCA funding from statute to the annual budget, and DBM becomes the gatekeeper for tourism projects.
NTC telco fines of ₱100,000 a day are small money. Repeating retests and a dispute over who sets the test are what Smart, Globe, and DITO now face.
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social media ban bill makes platforms verify user ages twice a year to a DICT standard not yet written. The cost lands on users and sellers.
SEC debt collection rules in draft would license collection agencies and keep lenders liable for them, shifting pricing power to accredited vendors.
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The NPC’s draft circular on data subject rights sets response clocks, but the heavier shift is who must prove a lawful basis. Read the mechanics.
Artificial sweetener regulation is shifting from import fees to the sweetened beverage tax, where cane sugar, sweeteners and Congress now collide.
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PNP wants National ID SIM registration to replace multiple accepted IDs, but the shift also concentrates telecom, banking and platform access on one database.
DOE’s Panay power supply plan sets 2028 to 2030 capacity dates, but leaves Western Visayas businesses carrying two more years of grid risk in the meantime.
NCAP registered owner liability returns October 5 in six Metro Manila cities. Fleet operators and company vehicle owners carry the first cost of every notice.
BIR seal badge deadline of October 31 waives display penalties only. Registration status, coverage and the steps to get the badge are explained here.
The fuel excise tax suspension DOF plans to recommend again covers LPG and kerosene only, leaving diesel and gasoline exposed to the current price spike.
DICT’s public backing of a social media platform franchise shows how Congress already uses budget leverage against its own agencies to police Meta.
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DOF wealth tax proposal is widening its scope, but the openness leans toward assets already easy to trace, not the wealth billionaires actually hold.
DOF’s sweetened beverage tax expansion targets ice cream and frozen yogurt, and lawmakers are already using the same method on other categories.
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The Discord block hit Filipino users while the Banga plan ran on Messenger and licensed online gambling kept going. Enforcement follows the channel.
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