FINANCE Secretary Benjamin Diokno has rejected a party-list group's proposal to lower income taxes, pointing to relatively new tax cuts ordered by the previous administration.

"We just amended both PIT (personal income tax) and CIT (corporate income tax). Let's give the new tax system a chance to operate. Too early to tinker with it," he told reporters on Wednesday.

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