Congress urged to pass tax reform bill as one package

Sharing her “sad experience with tax reform,” former president and now Pampanga congresswoman Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has cautioned Congress against passing the Duterte administration’s CTRP (Comprehensive Tax Reform Program) provisions separately instead of as a package.

When she asked lawmakers in 2008 to pass a revenue measure to fund her request for a supplemental budget, she said they did so but only tax-eroding provisions in 2009 and did away with the portion that would have offset the revenue loss.