65270 As demand for digital financial solutions skyrocketed in the pandemic, local open finance platform UBX quintupled its revenues last year and expects to sustain its growth momentum in 2022. In 2021 alone, UBX hauled in P20 billion in annual gross transaction value serving over 200,000 business...
Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III has directed the government’s two main tax agencies to further fortify their respective systems against hacking and other cyber threats amid increasing number of scams perpetrated online against financial consumers. Dominguez said the Bureau of Internal...
The Department of Finance (DOF) said the recently approved amendments to retail trade liberalization law along with other economic loosening initiatives will support the continued recovery of trade and economic activity in the country. Finance Undersecretary Gil S. Beltran said the nearly a quarter...
The Duterte administration’s revenue effort since it took office emerged as the highest among different presidential terms in over two decades, the Department of Finance (DOF) boasted. In a report to Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III by the DOF’s Domestic Finance Group (DFG), it said...
Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III called on tax management professionals to help build trust among taxpayers and encourage them to pay the right amount of taxes instead of finding “loopholes” for their clients to get away and avoid tax obligations. Dominguez said that although the...
More than 71% of Filipinos remain unbanked and have zero access to financial services, based on the 2019 survey of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). This unbanked sector includes aspiring entrepreneurs and MSMEs resulting in their inability to secure funding and support to expand their...
The Duterte administration has so far borrowed more than P1 trillion from foreign lenders for the government’s coronavirus response, the Department of Finance (DOF) said. As of Jan. 14, 2022, the national government already raised a total of $22.55 billion, or roughly P1.15 trillion, in budgetary...
The Philippines needs to maintain the momentum seen in the second semester of last year to sustain its economic recovery, the Department of Finance (DOF) said. Finance Undersecretary and Chief Economist Gil S. Beltran said the robust growth in the final two quarters of 2021 should be sustained even...
Senate Finance Committee chair Senator Sonny Angara on Tuesday assured that health care workers are now entitled to receive benefits while the state of national emergency due to COVID-19 is in effect. Angara, sponsor and co-author of Senate Bill No. 2421 or the act granting COVID-19 benefits and...
The Duterte administration registered a strong fiscal performance last year that enabled the government to maintain macroeconomic stability and helped maintain investor confidence, the Department of Finance (DOF) said. Finance Undersecretary and Chief Economist Gil S. Beltran said as he pointed out...
The Bureau of the Internal Revenue (BIR), the government’s main tax agency, has missed its collection target last year, the Department of Finance (DOF) reported on Friday, Jan. 28. Citing preliminary reports from the BIR, the DOF said the bureau collected P2.07 trillion from January to December...
FIRB identifies 3 barriers to foreign investments By Chino S. Leyco The prolonged pandemic, high costs of doing business, and foreign equity restrictions in the Philippines are the main barriers to foreign investments in the country, the Fiscal Incentives Review Board (FIRB) said on Wednesday, Jan....
