The Lucio Tan tax evasion case

Crusader

Probably nobody in the Philippines doubts the resolve of the Ramos-appointed BIR commissioner as a tax crusader. The country needed enforcers of her intelligence, incorruptibility, and determination. Hence, when in 1993 she slapped Lucio Tan and Fortune Tobacco with a Ps25.6 billion tax suit, the media frenzy that followed reverberated throughout the world.