PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte on Monday urged the 18th Congress to pass the remaining packages of his administration’s tax reform program, which he said would help finance its efforts to reduce poverty in the country.

During his fourth State of the Nation Address, Duterte implored “Congress to immediately pass Package 2 of the Comprehensive Tax Reform Program (CTRP) or the Trabaho bill,” saying the program would “fund our poverty-reduction programs.”