The government’s tax effort climbed in the first quarter of 2019 on the back of a double-digit expansion in tax revenue, the Department of Finance (DoF) reported on Wednesday.

Tax collections as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) rose to 14.6 percent in the first three months of the year from 14.3 percent a year earlier, it said in an economic bulletin.

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