JOINT CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE ON COOPERATIVES MEETING

JOINT CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE ON COOPERATIVES MEETING: Senate Majority Leader & Committee on Cooperatives Chairman Juan Miguel Zubiri (center) gestures as he stresses his point while Taguig 1st District Representative Maria Laarni Cayetano (left) and House Committee on Cooperatives Chairman Ernesto Pablo (right) wait for their turn during the Joint Congressional Oversight Committee on Cooperatives meeting on August 17, 2009 held at the Senate. Zubiri also said that the oversight committee will ask Finance Secretary Margarito Teves to issue an order to the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) not to collect taxes from the cooperatives until after the Joint Implementing Guidelines between the Cooperative Development Authority (CDA) and BIR have been approved.