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"That's not revenge…that's a case filed against him a long time ago at the BIR," Presidential spokesman Herminio Roque Jr.said at a press briefing Malacañang has challenged Sen. Manny Pacquiao to "walk the talk" on corruption days after President Rodrigo Duterte raised tax evasion complaint against the senator who recently tagged a number of state agencies in anomalies.
The relationship of once close allies Duterte and Pacquiao have deteriorated, with the president threatening to campaign against the senator during 2022 polls if he fails to name the corrupt government agencies. The boxer-turned-senator is reportedly eyeing the presidency next year. Pacquiao has accepted President Duterte's challenge and has identified the health, social welfare, energy and environment departments as among agencies that are into irregularities. The Duterte administration has downplayed the senator's allegations, saying they are not backed by evidence.
During meeting with officials of the ruling party PDP-Laban President Duterte said Pacquiao has a tax evasion case and that the senator owes government P2.2 billion in taxes that stemmed from his earnings from a boxing match. The president added that an official who cheats the government is "corrupt."
Roque claimed the president's remark was not meant to get back at Pacquiao for criticizing the alleged corruption in some agencies.
"That's why the president said, 'I thought you're anti-corruption…you have to walk the talk if you're against corruption…how come you yourself are not paying taxes, which is really a form of corruption because you are, at the same time, a public officer," he stressed.
President Duterte has said he would check status of the tax evasion case against Pacquiao. The senator, who left the country last weekend to prepare for his next boxing match in Las Vegas, has yet to react to the president's latest tirade against him. In 2018, the Court of Tax Appeals ordered the BIR to "cease and desist" from collecting P3.29-billion alleged tax deficiency of Pacquiao and his wife Jinkee for 2008 and 2009 because of lack of merit.
Last Wednesday, Senate Blue Ribbon Committee chairman Sen. Richard Gordon said Pacquiao has yet to file a resolution seeking an investigation on the alleged irregularities in some agencies.
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