Former secretaries of the Department of Finance (DOF) and eminent economists have expressed strong support for the urgent passage of the remaining packages of the Duterte administration’s Comprehensive Tax Reform Program (CTRP) to help fulfill its goal of reducing poverty incidence from 21 percent to just 14 percent within the next three years.
Read MoreThe Duterte administration has proven in the first half of its term that it can initiate serious policy reforms and implement them properly while delivering on its commitment to roll out a massive infrastructure program “on time and on budget,” Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has said.
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