CASAS + ARCHITECTS, INC. v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES COURT OF TAX APPEALS QUEZON CITY SECOND DIVISION CASAS+ARCHITECTS, INC., CTA CASE NO. 9806 Petitioner, -versus- COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent. X- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - X ORDER When this case was called for pre-trial, only counsel for respondent, Atty. Yvette C. Tenefrancia, 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, August 2, 2018. Q .c. a..r-~~1 9... . JUAMTO C. CASTANEDK, JR. Associate Justice (On sick leave) ~�l~~ CAESAR A. CASANOVA CATHERINE T. MANAHAN Associate Justice Associate Justice