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ESQUIRE: How rich is Sarah Geronimo?

The singer is one of the most successful in the country.
by Anri Ichimura
Published Feb 26, 2020
Sarah Geronimo has been on the Philippine Bureau of Internal Revenue's list of top taxpayers from 2010 until 2016, when the Data Privacy Law took effect.
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Online resources dedicated to estimating the net worth of celebrities, tycoons, and politicians estimate that superstar Sarah Geronimo is worth anywhere in the ballpark of $10 million to $75 million.

In Philippine pesos, she would be worth from P509.52 million to P3.82 billion.

Since 2010, Sarah has appeared regularly on almost every annual list of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) of the Philippines' top taxpayers until 2016, when the Data Privacy Law took effect.

According to BIR records, in 2009, Sarah paid PHP4.89 million in taxes from her earnings of Php15.28 million.

In 2010, she paid PHP14.83 million in taxes from her earnings of PHP46.4 million.

In 2011, however, Sarah did not appear on the BIR's list of the Philippines' top taxpayers.

In 2012, Sarah paid PHP18.13 million in taxes from an income of PHP56.6 million, making her the 59th top taxpayer in the country for that year.

In 2013, Sarah paid PHP16.12 million in taxes from her income of PHP50.39 million, and in 2014, paid PHP21.47 million in taxes from her income of PHP67.09 million.

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This would make her earnings from 2009 to 2014 greater than PHP230 million (USD4.5 million) within a span of six years.

The public listing of the Philippines' top taxpayers was discontinued in 2016. Under the Data Privacy Law, tax information is now confidential.

As such, we can only guess how much Sarah has earned since 2015 from her countless endorsements with major advertisers.

The singer-actress has also appeared in four major production feature films since 2014, all of which earned more than PHP150 million at the box office, with Finally Found Someone (2017) earning more than PHP315 million in the first year alone.

She is currently signed on as a coach for The Voice Kids and The Voice Teens, two of the most popular television shows in the country.

She has performed in multiple large-scale concerts since then, here and abroad, including the locally mounted Unified, where she shared the stage with Regine Velasquez.

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Considering Sarah began working as a child, with her career skyrocketing in the last six years, it wouldn't be a stretch to say that her wealth has grown exponentially, making the estimation of 10 million dollars not far-fetched, and perhaps even on the low end of the spectrum.

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Sarah Geronimo has been on the Philippine Bureau of Internal Revenue's list of top taxpayers from 2010 until 2016, when the Data Privacy Law took effect.
PHOTO/S: SARAHGERONIMO.PH
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