(Eagle News) — President Bongbong Marcos on Monday, July 24, called on Congress to “support” his “priority legislations.”
According to the President, these priority measures are:
1. The essential tax measures under our Medium-Term Fiscal Framework, such as:
- Excise tax on single-use plastics
- VAT on digital services
- Rationalization of mining fiscal regime
- Motor vehicle user’s charge/road user’s tax
- Military and Uniformed Personnel Pension
2. Amendment of the Fisheries Code
3. Amendment of the Anti-Agricultural Smuggling Act
4. Amendment of the Cooperative Code
5. New Government Procurement Law
6. New Government Auditing Code
7. Anti-financial accounts scamming
8. Tatak-Pinoy law
9. The Blue Economy law
10. Ease of paying taxes
11. LGU income classification
12. The Philippine Immigration Act
“In the past year, it has been a source of great hope and optimism to me to now know that there is an enormous pool of highly competent and dedicated workers serving in our government. It is up to us to provide good leadership and guidance. They love the Philippines and have responded to our call,” the President said.