A high-level delegation from the Philippines will meet with key Chinese officials this week in China to further hammer out details of some $15 billion-worth of economic deals and investment…
Senator Juan Edgardo Angara has informed the Department of Finance (DOF) that the Senate set up last year yet its oversight committee to review the impact of the Sin Tax…
The highly successful outcome of the Philippines’ $2 billion global bond sale this week underscores the continuing investor confidence in the leadership of President Duterte and his resolve to carry…
The Duterte administration needs to raise some P366 billion a year over the medium term, of which some P206.8 billion is expected to come from tax reform in the first…
Sweeping reforms at the Bureaus of Internal Revenue (BIR) and of Customs (BOC) are underway to improve taxpayer satisfaction, arrest official corruption and restore public trust in the government’s main…
The Land Bank of the Philippines (LandBank) and the government of Japan have signed a loan agreement worth almost 5 billion yen to fund a five-year project that aims to…
The Philippines would be hard put in the years ahead to keep Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth above 6 percent and maintain its status as one of Asia’s fastest-growing economies…
The commitments of investments and development assistance pledges by Japan and China to the Philippines are among the largest amounts announced by the two economic powerhouses for a single country,…
The vision to transform the Philippines into an upper middle-income economy by 2022 and close to becoming a high-income one by 2040 will fall through unless total investments are raised…
The Department of Finance (DOF) wants to assure public transport operators and drivers that the government proposal to adjust the diesel excise tax to P6 per liter will have "minimal…
