President Rodrigo Duterte has given his full backing to the Comprehensive Tax Reform Program (CTRP), which is supposed to play a pivotal role in his administration’s ambitious agenda to sharply reduce poverty, achieve economic inclusion and catapult the country to an upper middle-income economy by the time he steps down from office in 2022.

“The President has already held three meetings with leaders of the Congress, and the basic subject of those meetings was the tax reforms,” Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez 3rd.Dominguez was quoted as saying at a recent forum in Makati City.

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