Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) can soon enjoy tax and duty-free balikbayan (returnee) boxes as members of the bicameral conference committee on the Customs Modernization and Tariff Act (CMTA) have agreed to retain a provision increasing the tax-exempt value of items sent by Filipinos abroad` to their families back home.

Under the proposed CMTA, the tax exemption ceiling will be increased from the present P10,000 to P150,000.

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