SUN Life Financial Philippines urged Filipinos to embrace estate planning in passing on their properties to their heirs in order to avoid problems about high estate taxes.

“Many in the Philippines are not aware that when they are gone, the heirs would have to pay estate taxes before assets can be transferred to them,” Mylene Lopa, Sun Life Financial Philippines chief marketing officer, said at a media briefing in Pasay City late Saturday.

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