Sara Duterte's BIR box: 'Short setback if Senate returns them' —Barbers

Batangas Rep. Gerville Luistro points to the box containing income tax documents from the Bureau of Internal Revenue during the House Justice Committee hearing on the impeachment case against Vice President Sara Duterte on Wednesday, April 29, 2026. INQUIRER.net photo by Grig C. Montegrande

MANILA, Philippines — Amid efforts to unseal the container holding Vice President Sara Duterte and her husband’s tax records, its return from the Senate to the House prosecution team will be a “temporary setback.”

Robert Ace Barbers, impeachment prosecution panel adviser, expressed this view on Sunday.

“What is important is that other evidence be presented,” Barbers, former Surigao del Norte representative told dZMM radio in Filipino. “This ‘BIR box,’ for a lack of a better word, is a temporary setback.”

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