Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has ordered Department of Finance (DOF) officials to study ways of actively engaging lawmakers in the incoming Congress to speed up the approval of the rest…
The Duterte administration took only 11 months to tame elevated inflation rates to below 4 percent, the fastest in almost two decades, compared to previous government efforts to rein in…
High-level Philippine and Japanese officials are set to resume discussions on the progress of Japan-funded infrastructure projects under the “Build, Build, Build” program and other areas of economic cooperation between…
The clean sweep by administration-backed candidates in last month’s midterm elections illustrates the desire of the Filipino people for President Duterte to continue his pragmatic program of reforms that he…
Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez will deliver his keynote address focusing on the fiscal and economic priorities of the Duterte administration before members of the 22 sponsoring organizations and guests…
A top World Bank official has lauded the Duterte administration for implementing a "proactive and forward-looking" comprehensive tax reform program (CTRP) that aims to raise enough funding for two priority…
Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has thanked the Senate and the House of Representatives for passing this week a new "sin" tax reform bill that provides substantially higher excise tax…
The Department of Finance (DOF) aims to complete the full shift to an electronic invoicing system by December 2022 as part of the digital transformation in tax administration that the…
Provinces and cities are losing an estimated P30.5 billion in total foregone revenues as a result of outdated real property values, underscoring the need for valuation reforms in the real…
The Universal Health Care (UHC) Act will be downgraded from being a first-class law to a third-rate one, with its implementation either failing to equitably serve all Filipinos or its…
