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“ABS-CBN is using its subsidiary, Big Dipper, to hide the right amount of taxes it should pay.”
Rodante Marcoleta Claim dated 5 Feb 2022.
Vera Files rated thisFalse

What Vera Files found

Big Dipper and ABS-CBN have been paying their taxes correctly over the years, according to officials from the BIR and Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) who testified in a congressional hearing on ABS-CBN’s franchise on July 1, 2020.

Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.

In short

Rodante Marcoleta made this claim around 5 February 2022. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 10 February 2022, 5 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.

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