Secretary Carlos Dominguez 3rd congratulated his fellow workers in the Department of Finance (DoF) and its attached agencies for a “good job” done last year, which has led to significant progress in the tax reform packages it had endorsed to the Congress plus substantial gains in revenue collections and official development assistance (ODA) from the country’s development partners, among other accomplishments.

During the first DoF Executive Committee (Execom) meeting held this year, Dominguez also cited the successful bond issuances of the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr), particularly the first-ever Premyo bonds sale that has encouraged unbanked Filipinos to save and invest, as well as the efforts of Undersecretary and Chief Economist Gil Beltran and the Department’s Domestic Finance Group (DFG) to update the public about the latest economic trends in the country.