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Second Philippine Tax Reform Bill Submitted to Parliament including Corporate Tax Changes

29 March 2018

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Proposed Changes

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Philippines

The Philippine Department of Finance (DOF) has announced that the second package of measures for the Comprehensive Tax Reform Program (CTRP) has been filed in the House of Representatives. While the first package, approved in December 2017 ({News-2018-02-26/A/3-previous coverage}), was mainly focused on individual income tax reforms, the second package is focused on corporate tax and incentives reform. This includes: A one-percentage point reduction in the current 30% corporate tax rate every year for domestic corporations, resident foreign corporations, and non-resident foreign corporations starting from 2019, provided that the cut will not reach lower than 20%; The simplification and harmonization...