TV host Willie Revillame is the highest celebrity taxpayer of 2012, second only in the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s (BIR) list of the top 500 individual taxpayers for taxable year 2012 – released on Monday, Oct. 14 – to drugstore magnate Vivian Que Azcona.
Revillame, who bid farewell to his TV5 noontime show “Wowowillie” on Saturday, paid almost P64 million in income taxes.
He “outpaid” actress-TV host Kris Aquino, who was the highest paid celebrity and top celebrity taxpayer in 2010; and who earned a total taxable income of P101 million, and paid taxes of P32.3 million that year. The Queen of All Media ranked sixth this time around, after paying nearly P45 million in income taxes.
Actor John Lloyd Cruz is on eighth spot with payment of P42.8 M, followed closely by the Megastar, Sharon Cuneta, who paid P42 million, at ninth place.
Former love team Judy Ann Santos and Piolo Pascual ranked 32nd (P24 M) and 34th (P23 M), respectively. Not far behind at 36th place is boxing icon and Sarangani representative Manny Pacquiao, who paid a total income tax of P22 million.
Actress-host-endorser Anne Curtis rounds up the list of celebrities in the top 50, ranked 50th with P19 million in tax payments.
Other celebrities included in BIR’s top taxpayer list are Sarah Geronimo, 59th (P18.3 M); Robin Padilla, 60th (P18.2 M); Derek Ramsay, 68th (P16 M); Coco Martin, 79th (P15 M); Vic Sotto, 89th (P14.61 M); Boy Abunda, 110th (P13 M); Vice Ganda, 137th (P12 M); Joey de Leon, 156th (P11.09 M); Michael V., 118th (P12.59 M); former Vice President, currently ABS-CBN news anchor Noli de Castro, 168th (P10 M); Dingdong Dantes, 216th (P9.48 M); Angelica Panganiban, 226th (P9.06 M); Gerald Anderson, 297th (P7.7 M); Kim Chiu, 309th (P7.2 M); Toni Gonzaga, 390th (P6.63 M); and Solenn Heussaff at 327th place (P7.23 M).
Willie Revillame top celeb taxpayer
Source: Mb.com.ph (October 15, 2013 at 11:25AM)
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