MANILA, Philippines — Rappler CEO Maria Ressa said that the Bureau of Internal Revenue violated her right to due process when it filed a multimillion-peso tax evasion case against officers of the online news outfit. "We did not commit the alleged crimes," Ressa said in a counter-affidavit filed before state prosecutors on Monday. Ressa is one of the respondents in a case filed by the Bureau of Internal Revenue against Rappler Holdings Corp. and its executives. The bureau noted that the annual RHC’s ITR and VAT returns for 2013 did not reflect the IT and VAT from the PDR transaction. “We could not be accused of misrepresentation in our tax returns because there was no reason for us to conclude that the claimed taxes were due,” Ressa’s counter-affidavit further reads.

Source: Philippine Star May 07, 2018 07:41 UTC