EUNEY MARIE MATA-PEREZ
The House of Representatives of this 18th Congress approved on third and final reading House Bill 4157 or the Citira (Corporate Income Tax and Incentive Rationalization Act), Package 2 of the government’s Comprehensive Tax Reform Program. As we all know, the counterpart version of this bill (previously named Tax Reform for Attracting Better and High-Quality Opportunities or Trabaho bill) was approved by the House of Representatives of the 17th Congress way back in September 2018. However, the deliberations of the previous bill did not progress since then because of the 2019 elections. Now, it will be the Senate’s turn to deliberate on it.