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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.
Cambodia rice imports to the Philippines are set to surge 50-fold in 2026. The new supply arrives as farmgate palay prices collapse during wet season harvest.
The Q3 government borrowing program leans on short-term debt at rising yields, resetting the hurdle rate banks use to price every private loan.
DICT credits PEMEDES licensing for an 88% drop in courier complaints, but the bigger shift is who now controls the gate over last-mile delivery.
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The DOE nuclear power auction targets first delivery in 2038, six years past the reaffirmed 2032 goal, with sovereign guarantees backing the cost.
The JuanHand billboard offers ₱2,000 loans to commuters short on fare. Under SEC rules that loan can legally cost double the principal before it clears.
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The BIR abatement fee is ₱5,000, paid before approval and non-refundable. Here is what micro taxpayers actually pay to close old cases under RR 4-2026.
The Meralco solar partnership bundles broadband and rooftop solar, putting one capital group in control of the entire residential installation stack.
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The BIR tax abatement program lets micro taxpayers clear old liabilities for ₱5,000, but the ₱80,000 ceiling shows what the bureau really wants.
Labor pressed for a ₱200 minimum wage increase at the NCR wage board, the one body built to keep raises small. The gap is doing the real work.
The BPI outage triggered a BSP supervisory review days before the Circular 1213 deadline. Banking system resilience is now an enforcement category.
The guarantee letter ban took the politician’s name off public medical aid but left the instrument alive on three rails. The patronage pathway survived.
The DA wants to more than double the corn import quota to 500,000 MT, a discretionary route that hands the tariff margin to allocation holders.
The PhilHealth 24-hour rule denied a 25-year contributor’s claim for a case its own emergency benefit was already written to cover at the point of care.
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The domestic top-up tax keeps the 15 percent global minimum in Manila, but it quietly retires the tax holiday as a lever for the largest investors.
The FOI bill cleared the Senate and nears House approval, but the real fight is enforcement. Who holds that power decides if the law has teeth.
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The NPC’s cybersecurity incident notice extends data breach sharing liability beyond IT teams to social managers, PR staff, and community managers.
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