Today's Issue
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Editor's Take: In Memory of Anita Roddick
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SME Toolkit Road Show Update:SME Toolkit Goes to the City of Jewelers
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Tax Calendar
SME Toolkit Road Show Update
SME Toolkit Goes to the City of Jewelers
After the successful Malolos, Bulacan Road Show, SME Toolkit tapped the entrepreneurs of Valenzuela, Meycauayan, Paso de Blas and Sta. Maria, Bulacan, last Thursday, September 13, 2007.
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Tax Calendar
September 17 Last day of e-Filing for 1601C, 1601E, 1601F & 1602 - Withholding return on compensation, EWT, & FWT for August 2007 (Group A); e-Payment for 1601C, 1601E, 1601F & 1602 -Withholding on compensation, EWT & FWT for August 2007 (all EFPS groups); e-Filing/Filing & e-Payment/Payment for 1702 & 1702-AIF - Annual ITR and AIF by corporations and partnerships for FY ended May 2007; 1704 - IAET for FY ended August 2006; Filing & Payment for 1707A consolidated CGT return for shares not traded in the stock exchange for TY ended May 2007
September 20 Last day of Filing & Payment for 2550M & 2551M VAT & PT for August 2007 (non-EFPS taxpayers); e-Filing/Filing & e-Payment/Payment for 2551Q PT for TQ ended August 2007
September 21 Last day of e-Filing for 2550M & 2551M VAT & PT for August 2007 (Group E)
Source: Punongbayan & Araullo
Editor's Take
In Memory of Anita Roddick
Anita Roddick, founder of ethical cosmetics firm Body Shop, a celebrated yet controversial figure and inspiration for many women passed away last week at age 64.
A campaigner for socially and ethically responsible business and “fair trade” for many years before it became fashionable to do so Anita Roddick inspired millions to the cause by bringing sustainable products to a mass market.
A pioneer who advocated that business could be a “force for good” Anita Roddick was not shy to describe her stores as “billboards” and used her fame to raise awareness for a range of causes, most famously for an end to the practice of animal testing.
Anita Roddick earned her fortune by hard work and creative insight. She had tried her hand running a picture-framing shop, a restaurant and a hotel before she came upon the idea of a store to sell a range of natural beauty products.
Her first store opened in 1976 in the village near Brighton and by the 1980s the Body Shop with its ethically-sourced products had become a business icon in Britain. She stepped down in 2003 as head of her firm and in July 2006, the Body Shop became part of the French cosmetic giant L’Oreal Group in 2006 but is run independently. It now has more than 2,100 stores in 55 countries trading in over 24 languages.
Anita Roddick devoted most of her working life to finding new ways of doing business and her latter years looking for ways for business to take a lead in making the world a better place. Let us honor her memory and others like her by helping to make it so.
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Russelle S. Trinidad
SME BizLink Editor
