DoF advances digital tech initiatives

The Department of Finance (DoF) has beefed up its digitalization initiatives, which include facilitating trade online and making the filing of tax exemptions more convenient to better serve the public and improve its oversight functions and policy-making processes.

Finance Secretray Carlos Dominguez 3rd said these modernization initiatives include the enhancement of the DoF's Tax Exemption System (TES), which was replaced by the web-based TESlite to make it easier and more convenient for importers to apply for tax and duty exemptions with the Department's Revenue Office.