The reviewed Philippines records are listed below with their named parties, dates and evidence limits. Coverage is selective and later developments may remain outstanding.
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Senate-related reporting in 2021 raised questions about XCMG’s pandemic-supply contracts and tax obligations. The company denied tax evasion.
Read the research file M012External coverage provides context. Repeated allegations do not become independent findings.
Reporting: Bella Perez-Rubio / Philstar.com.
Reports Senate questions about pandemic-supply contracts and tax obligations, attributed to the senator.
Read at sourceOriginal article read. Senator’s statements during Senate Blue Ribbon proceedings are attributed concerns, not a final tax assessment or corruption finding. Different contract figures from other datasets are not combined.
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Original URL: https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2021/10/28/2137329/another-firm-got-big-pandemic-deals-also-met-duterte-2017-senator
Reporting: Melvin Gascon / Philippine Daily Inquirer.
Includes the company counsel’s denial and the call for BIR to determine any tax liabilities.
Read at sourceOriginal article body read. Records Senator Hontiveros’s position that BIR should decide and company counsel Kim Baltazar’s denial and international-trade explanation. No final BIR assessment or court determination retrieved.
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Original URL: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1509677/let-bir-have-final-say-on-chinese-firms-tax-liabilities-says-risa
Source: Right to Know, Right Now! Coalition / Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism.
An October 2021 analysis published by PCIJ named Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group Imp. and Exp. Co., Ltd. among the largest pandemic-supply contractors, listing about PhP1.9 billion in its procurement dataset.
Read at sourceInvestigative data reporting using government procurement databases. Coalition analysis, not an official tax assessment. The dataset and dates differ from later Senate reporting; do not merge PhP1.9 billion and PhP2.23 billion as one audited total. Original contract rows not independently re-audited.
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Original URL: https://pcij.org/2021/10/15/pharmally-other-firms-bagged-p65-billion-pandemic-supply-projects/
Source: Paolo Romero / OneNews.PH / The Philippine Star.
Reporting by Paolo Romero for OneNews/The Philippine Star included XCMG counsel Kim Baltazar’s denial of tax evasion and her argument that its transaction was export delivery completed at the Chinese port. The report also recorded an official’s position that PS-DBM withheld taxes, including VAT, and Senator Hontiveros’s call for BIR to decide.
Read at sourceOriginal reporting carrying company counsel response. The company’s legal position is attributed, not endorsed as the tax law outcome. No final BIR assessment or court decision was reviewed. Direct-open cache miss but primary-host search supplied full article body.
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Original URL: https://www.onenews.ph/articles/chinese-firm-in-p1-6-b-ppe-mess-denies-tax-evasion
Checked 2026-10-21. This is selective public-source coverage; absence of a record is not evidence of absence.