PURECHEM CORPORATION v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES COURT OF TAX APPEALS QUEZON CITY SECOND DIVISION PURECHEM CORPORATION, CTA CASE NO. 9653 Petitioner, -versus- COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent. X- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - X ORDER When this case was called for pre-trial, only counsel for respondent, Atty. Lei Adrian V. Gapoy, appeared . Counsel for petitioner failed to appear despite due notice. For failure of petitioner's counsel to appear, despite notice , and for failure of petitioner to file its pre-trial brief, counsel for respondent moved for the dismissal of this case . Finding merit in the motion , the same is hereby GRANTED. WHEREFORE, the case in caption is hereby DISMISSED for failure of petitioner's counsel to appear at the scheduled pre-trial and for failure of petitioner to file its pre-trial brief (Sections 5 & 6, Rule 18 of the 1997 Rules of Civil Procedure, as amended). SO ORDERED. Quezon City, Philippines, February 1, 2018. Q c_ c...t-~..( Q.. JUANffO C. CASTANEu)(,.JR. Associate Justice CAESA~ASANOVA ~~~ Associate Justice CATHERINE T. MANAHAN Associate Justice