“ABS-CBN is cheating the government by the billions of pesos in taxes.”
What Vera Files found
Officials from the Bureau of Internal Revenue have cleared the media network of tax deficiencies during congressional hearings on the ABS-CBN franchise bill in early 2020.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Rodrigo Duterte made this claim around 26 July 2021. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 3 August 2021, 8 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Rodrigo Duterte has 126 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 46 of them false or fake, 78 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- pcoo.gov.phhttps://pcoo.gov.ph/presidential-speech/state-of-the-nation-address-of-rodrigo-roa-dutert…
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9xEdC3j3A4&t=8721s
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