FACTS The Bureau of Treasury (BTr) in a notice announced the auction of 10- year Zero-Coupon Bonds denominated as the Poverty Eradication and Alleviation Certificates or the PEACE Bonds on October 16, 2001, which the BTr states shall not be subject to 20% final withholding tax since the issue is limited to 19 buyers/lenders. AtContinue reading “BANCO DE ORO, ET AL VS Republic of the Philippines, et al G.R. No. 198756, August 16, 2016”