Tax collections by the government as a percentage of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) improved in the first three quarters of 2019, the Department of Finance (DoF) reported on Friday.

“In the first three quarters of the year, tax effort topped 15.7 percent, already approaching the 15.8-percent water mark clocked in 1997,” it said in an economic bulletin.

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