Tax reform to fund infra buildup and spur growth above 6 percent

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…

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YEARENDER: DOF crafts “game-changing” tax reform package in 2016

The Department of Finance (DOF) completed in less than 90 days into the Duterte administration last year the first package of its proposed comprehensive tax reform program (CTRP) envisioned to…

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DOF urges Congress to let sin tax law ‘run its course’

Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has urged the congressional oversight committee on the Sin Tax Reform Act to start reviewing the revenue and health impact of the tax rates mandated…

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Mindanao Business Council backs tax reform plan

The Mindanao Business Council Inc. (MBCI) has given its full backing to the comprehensive tax reform program of the Duterte administration, describing it as “the starting point” to the attainment…

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Tax reform program to fill backlog in infra, education and health

The proposed comprehensive tax reform program will, if approved in toto, let the Duterte administration improve 44,000 kilometers of national and local roads; build 6,700 health centers and hire nearly…

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Tax reform plan to help free 6-M Filipinos from poverty

Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III said today that congressional approval of the proposed tax reform program would help the Duterte administration realize its vision of reducing the poverty level to…

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