The Senate is unlikely to adopt the entirety of the government’s first comprehensive tax reform package, a legislator said on Wednesday.

“There’s some changes … But more or less it’s maybe 50 percent to 60 percent or 70 percent of what the DoF (Department of Finance) proposed,” ways and means committee chairman Sen. Juan Edgardo Angara told reporters at the sidelines of a Senate hearing.

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