OVERSEAS Filipino workers (OFWs) and Filipinos residing abroad may soon be allowed to bring or send more goods to their loved ones in the Philippines tax-free following the Senate’s passage of a bill raising to P150,000 the tax-exempt value of balikbayan (returnee) boxes.

The present tax-exempt ceiling is P10,000.

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