Tax reform “key link” to redeeming PHL future—Dominguez

Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has underscored the importance of public diplomacy to win popular support for the Duterte administration’s proposed Comprehensive Tax Reform Program (CTRP) by convincing ordinary Filipinos…

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Cabinet execs bat for speedy passage of DOF’s CTRP in Congress

Members of the Duterte Cabinet have appealed to the Congress to swiftly pass the proposed Comprehensive Tax Reform Program (CTRP) that will empower government to overhaul the country’s obsolete tax…

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Cabinet officials pitch support for CTRP before Congress

Seven Cabinet Secretaries and five undersecretaries came in full force at Monday’s hearing of the House ways and means committee on the proposed Comprehensive Tax Reform Program (CTRP) to demonstrate…

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Civil society coalition backs auto tax hike plan

A non-government coalition advocating tax and fiscal reforms has expressed its full support for the proposed adjustments in automobile excise taxes as way to help raise revenues that would fund…

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Veteran solon declares DOF’s CTRP as “best-studied tax reform bill”

Raw data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) and the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) showing that 27.9 percent of taxes that high-income earners should pay the government are uncollected…

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CTRP to exempt 4.6-M Filipinos from income taxation

Some 4.66 million taxpayers, or more than double the current figure of 1.8 million, will no longer pay their personal income tax (PIT) under the government’s highly progressive Comprehensive Tax…

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ADB backs DOF’s ‘progressive’ excise tax reforms

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has expressed its support for the proposed reforms in the excise taxes of automobiles and petroleum products being pushed by the Department of Finance (DOF)…

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Dominguez optimistic on CTRP approval by Congress

Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has expressed confidence that President Rodrigo Duterte might not even have to expend any political capital on getting the proposed Comprehensive Tax Reform Program (CTRP)…

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Local, foreign biz groups urge Congress to pass CTRP, 11 other measures

Fifteen foreign and local business organizations have appealed to Malacanang and the Congress to give top priority to the Comprehensive Tax Reform Program (CTRP) and 11 other legislative proposals that…

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