MEMBERS of the President Isko Movement-Isulong ang Kapakanan ng Pilipino (PRIMO ISKO) have intensified their move to force the government to collect the P203 billion estate tax liability of the Marcos family.
In a human chain protest held yesterday at the Boy Scout Circle in Quezon City, PRIMO ISKO national chairman Nato Agbayani said the tax obligation of the Marcoses should be collected immediately since the Supreme Court ruled that it is final and executory to collect the billions.
Agbayani said the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and the Department of Finance should oblige the Marcos family members, most especially the estate’s executor/administrator and presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos Jr., to pay the tax obligation that had been neglected for decades.
“Wala ng dahilan para hindi magbayad ng buwis ang pamilya Marcos. Dapat lang na singilin na ng BIR ang pamilya, at usigin ang mga ito sa hindi pagbabayad ng Tamang buwis,” Agbayani said.
Members of PRIMO ISKO already held a series of pickets at the BIR, LTFRB, Cogeo Market and DHSUD to remind the Filipino people that the Marcos family continues to refuse to pay the tax obligation.
The Aksyon Demokratiko is one of the groups calling for the Marcoses to pay the P203 billion estate tax.
Also attending the human chain picket at the Boy Scout Circle were various groups under the Alliance of Genuine Labor Organization-National Confederation of Labor (AGLO-NCL), which joined together to condemn the Marcoses’ attempt to return to power despite masterminding the human rights violations and other criminal acts during the martial law years.
According to the Amnesty International, around 100,000 people fell victims to the Marcos dictatorship during the more than 21-year rule of former president Ferdinand Marcos Sr. The Amnesty International said from 1972 to 1981 many members of militant groups either disappeared or were found dead for going against the dictatorial rule of Marcos.
There were 70,000 people arrested and 34,000 more experienced torture under the Marcos regime. There were 3,240 documented killing initiated by the police and military.
The groups also condemned the lavish lifestyle of the Marcos family that resulted in the collapse of the Philippine economy during the dictatorship.
