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The Philippines' biggest business deals in 2017
The country's conglomerates have acquired everything from digital payment tech to coal power plants this year, as they acquire the tools they hope will shape the economy’s future

Philippine tobacco giant Mighty Corp pays P30 billion to settle tax case
(UPDATED) The P30 billion settlement with P10 billion in taxes and penalties on top will fund President Rodrigo Duterte's 'Build, Build, Build' program

Japan Tobacco buying Mighty Corp for $1 billion
Japan Tobacco says it will pay 46 8 billion pesos 936 million for Mighty which has a 23 share of the Philippine market

P3.2-B cigarettes with fake stamps found in Bulacan warehouses
The raid on the warehouses storing Mighty Corporation cigarettes is made two days after the government filed a P9 6 billion tax evasion case against the company
Mighty Corporation takes up Duterte's offer to pay P3B
Alexander Wongchuking writes the President to tell him they will pay a P1 billion downpayment and asks if they could pay the balance on installment

Aguirre: Mighty Corp owner can't be arrested without charges
Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II says it is up to the DOF the BIR and the BOC to file the necessary complaint against Alex Wongchuking

‘NTA liable for unnecessary interaction with Mighty Corp’
The agency and tax issue ridden cigarette firm Mighty were together in a tree planting activity which a think tank says is a ‘no no’

Health advocates hail shutdown of Mighty cigarette warehouse
Mighty has been accused of lowering the prices of its cigarettes through technical smuggling
Strange bedfellows seek sin tax reform
Unlikely political allies joined together to push for reforming the tax on tobacco and alcohol