An Update on The Great Book Blockade - with links! XD
UPDATE: [20 May 2009] Manolo Quezon III have made a timeline of events on his site detailing all there is about the legality and violations of the 1% and 5% imposition of taxes on all books and magazines (imported and locally published). Click also on all the links he highlighted there for more info on all that is has happened since. Read the comments especially as they shed more light on the whole issue.
EDIT [7 May 2009]: Robin Hemley, the writer of the article we are discussing, has replied to charlesatan and here's the link!
i posted yesterday about my loathing for receiving/sending parcels/packages in our country and charlesatan has made an essay and the fallacies regarding The Great Book Blockage of 2009 over at McSweeney's.
read the post and comments on Kenneth Yu's Multiply account here.
and then go to Manolo L. Quezon III's site here to read his view on this issue.
after that, go to this page for a more clear and concise legal talk on the Florence Agreement and the possible conflict with the DoF's implementation of the 1% and 5% taxes on published books.
after angsting on this, let's head off to this dude's artistic rendition on the whole issue. ^_~
others have posted their views on this. i have only cited my bad experience and i haven't even mentioned about the ones about my friends' (a couple had been charged for the magazines they have ordered from japan, huh?) bad experience at other postal offices in the metro alone and that of my late father's experience in getting an overseas greeting card sent to him in our provincial address. *sighs*
i hope that people will be more informed and make a more logical and intelligent judgment on this issue spawned by harmless and satiric article made in the name of humor. *facepalm*
EDIT [7 May 2009]: Robin Hemley, the writer of the article we are discussing, has replied to charlesatan and here's the link!
i posted yesterday about my loathing for receiving/sending parcels/packages in our country and charlesatan has made an essay and the fallacies regarding The Great Book Blockage of 2009 over at McSweeney's.
read the post and comments on Kenneth Yu's Multiply account here.
and then go to Manolo L. Quezon III's site here to read his view on this issue.
after that, go to this page for a more clear and concise legal talk on the Florence Agreement and the possible conflict with the DoF's implementation of the 1% and 5% taxes on published books.
after angsting on this, let's head off to this dude's artistic rendition on the whole issue. ^_~
others have posted their views on this. i have only cited my bad experience and i haven't even mentioned about the ones about my friends' (a couple had been charged for the magazines they have ordered from japan, huh?) bad experience at other postal offices in the metro alone and that of my late father's experience in getting an overseas greeting card sent to him in our provincial address. *sighs*
i hope that people will be more informed and make a more logical and intelligent judgment on this issue spawned by harmless and satiric article made in the name of humor. *facepalm*