Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao is now the No. 1 Taxpayer in the list of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) for the top individual tax payments for 2013. Aside from being the No. 1 in the list, he also dominated the elite list of celebrities who paid the highest number of taxes to the Philippine government.
Manny Pacquiao, one of the world’s wealthiest athletes, is the only individual who broke the P100-million mark on the list who paid a total of 163.84 million ($3.6 million) in regular income taxes.
In the list of Top Celebrity taxpayers in the country, Manny Pacquiao also led the list the includes some of the most popular artists in the Philippines such as Piolo Pascual, John Lloyd Cruz, and former No. 1 taxpayer Kris Aquino, the sister of Pres. Aquino.
The list below includes the total overall rank of each celebrities who were included in the list of taxpayers.
Here’s the Top 12 Celebrity Taxpayers of the Philippines:
1 Manny Pacquiao (Real name: Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao) Regular income taxes paid: P163,841,863
14 – Piolo Pascual (Real name: Piolo Jose Nonato Pascual) Regular income taxes paid: P42,533,158
15 – John Lloyd Cruz (Real name: John Lloyd Espidol Cruz) Regular income taxes paid: P41,976,592
16 – Kris Aquino (Real name: Kristina Bernadette Cojuangco Aquino) Regular income taxes paid: P40,481,146
19 – Sharon Cuneta (Real name: Sharon Cuneta Pangilinan) Regular income taxes paid: P39,049,235
20 – Willie Revillame (Real name: Wilfredo Buendia Revillame) Regular income taxes paid: P38,305,824
36 – Anne Curtis (Real name: Anne Ojales Curtis-Smith) Regular income taxes paid: P28,237,190
44 – Judy Ann Santos (Real name: Judy Anne Santos Agoncillo) Regular income taxes paid: P24,322,824
52 – Coco Martin (Real name: Rodel Pacheco Nacianceno) Regular income taxes paid: P22,493,825
53 – Vic Sotto (Real name: Marvic Castelo Sotto) Regular income taxes paid: P22,409,591
99 – Sarah Geronimo (Real name: Sarah Asher Tua Geronimo) Regular income taxes paid: P16,124,644
101 – Dingdong Dantes (Real name: Jose Sixto III Gonzales Dantes) Regular income taxes paid: P15,732,757