Archive for July 24, 2017
City hall donor can deduct gift from gross income – BIR
By Mortz C. Ortigoza
DAGUPAN CITY – The donor of the property for the planned city hall can deduct his donation from his taxable gross income, according to a high official of the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
CPA-Lawyer Maria Isabel B. Utit, chief of the BIR in Eastern Pangasinan, said the National Internal Revenue Code (NIRC) provides that contribution to the government political subdivision is deductible in full.
“Contributions or gifts actually paid or made within the taxable year to, or for the use of the government of the Philippines or any of its agencies or any political subdivision thereof exclusively for public purposes,” she quoted parts of Paragraph H Section 34 of the Nantional Internal Revenue Code (NIRC).
This means that the property price can be deducted from gross income of donors like Kerwin Fernandez.
This law, according to Utit, was hammered by Congress to encourage citizens to donate to the government. (more…)
Nurses hold medical mission as part of alumni homecoming
By Mortz C. Ortigoza
DAGUPAN CITY – Members of the Nursing Batch 1992 of the Lyceum Northwestern University conducted a medical mission at the barangay hall of Tapuac here as part of their 25th Alumni Homecoming.

Enter a captionMEDICAL MISSION. Filipino-American nurses man the medicines given to the marginalized residents of Barangay Tapuac in Dagupan City. The medical mission held last Thursday was part of the two-day 25th alumni homecoming programs of the graduates of Bachelor of Science in Nursing of Lyceum Northwestern University. Second from left is Chief Nurse Buenafe Viray- Redoble, Dialysis Technician Nolito Soriano, Dialysis Performance Improvement Nurse Jose Saguibal, Robotic Surgery Coordinator Marites Aquino- De Guzman and Specialist Teacher Evelina Pasca. MORTZ C. ORTIGOZA
According to Jose Saguibal, the medical mission participated by local physicians catered to the marginalized residents of the village who live at the back of Lyceum Northwestern University.
“Our mission was to give back to our community. We did not want a reunion just to have fun. It is a cause with a mission serving back the our community where we all came from,” said Christine delos Reyes – Batalla, a case manager at Kaiser Permanente in San Jose, California..
The event was held in the morning of July 21, according to the Saguibal who is a nurse at a veteran hospital in Bronx, New York.
He said the alumni homecoming would be celebrated up to July 22 where other programs like dinner party await them at the Stadia.
According to Marites Aquino-de Guzman, a robotic surgery coordinator in Charlotte, South Carolina, there were 60 alumnus and alumnae where some came from different countries who attended the get-together
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