THE government is confident that the revenue loss it would incur from its plan to cut individual and corporate income taxes could be more than offset by the gains from higher excise taxes, and broad-based value-added tax (VAT).

This is the response of Finance Undersecretary Gil Beltran during the budget briefing that the Development Budget Coordination Committee held at the House of Representatives on Monday.

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