“ABS-CBN employed a dubious subsidiary, Big Dipper, to operate like a tax shield to evade the payment of billions of [pesos in] taxes due to the government.”
What Vera Files found
During a congressional hearing in 2020, both the Bureau of Internal Revenue and the Philippine Export Processing Zone Authority cleared ABS-CBN of any tax liabilities.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Rodante Marcoleta made this claim around 15 August 2022. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 25 August 2022, 10 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Rodante Marcoleta has 14 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 13 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://youtu.be/Nm-D_8R0YxE
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