BIR at frontline of govt agenda to boost growth, cut poverty – Dominguez

FINANCE Secretary Carlos Dominguez 3rd has vowed to work closely with the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to ensure the financial sustainability of the Duterte administration’s ambitious program to maintain economic growth and ease poverty by increasing investment in education and health care.

He said the BIR is working “under extraordinary circumstances” at “the frontline of the new government’s broad effort to reverse the pattern of slow and exclusive growth” and meet the challenge of freeing six million Filipinos from poverty on the Duterte watch.