Manila, April 1 -- An interagency task force now checking the number of foreign nationals working for Philippine online gaming operators (POGOs) has come up with an initial list of 138,000 workers employed in these internet-based operations as well as in other businesses, an apparently untapped sub-sector that could yield for the government an estimated PHP32 billion in additional income taxes annually, the Department of Finance (DOF) revealed in a statement on Monday.
In their report to Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III during a meeting last week, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and the Bureau of Immigration (BI) came up with a reconciled list of 138,001 workers, of which 54,241 were issued alien employment permits (AEP...