The Department of Finance (DOF) will "try its best" until the last minute to convince the Congress to impose new "sin" tax rates on tobacco products that will make cigarettes…
DAVAO CITY—A consolidation of the actionable recommendations submitted by the private sector in the four regional “Sulong Pilipinas” workshops conducted in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao in November yielded proposals ranging…
DAVAO CITY—Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has said that spinning off the annual “Sulong Pilipinas” consultative conference into regional forums across the country underscores the importance given by the Duterte…
DAVAO CITY—Infrastructure spending of over a half-trillion pesos in the first nine months of 2018 demonstrates the “fast and sure” mantra in the implementation of projects and shows the vastly…
CLARK FREEPORT—The Duterte administration has delivered on several key recommendations two years ago by the private sector to help the government supercharge the economy and fulfill its goal of inclusive…
‘Sulong Pilipinas,’ the annual consultative forum held by the Duterte administration with the private sector, will focus on tax reform and the ‘Build, Build, Build’ infrastructure program this year, with…
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) from Visayas and Luzon have rallied behind the Duterte Administration’s proposed reforms in corporate taxation, which, they said, would enable them to expand their businesses,…
Rather than make an 11th-hour appeal to President Duterte to reconsider his own directive supporting corporate income tax (CIT) and fiscal incentives reform that will benefit more than 99 percent…
Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has assured the public that despite the strong economic headwinds facing the country, it remains primed to regain its growth momentum on the back of…
Qualified enterprises can benefit from an improved set of investment incentives under the second package of the Duterte administration’s comprehensive tax reform program (CTRP) that may bring down their tax…
