
EXPECTATIONS | A woman in Manila minds her store while sewing clothes and watching President Marcos deliver his State of the Nation Address on Monday, July 24, 2023. In his second year in office, Marcos promised to provide Filipinos with a stable food supply and quality education and health care. (Photo by RICHARD A. REYES / Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. enumerated some of the items on his legislative wish list during his second State of the Nation Address on Monday:
- Excise tax on single-use plastics
- Tax on digital services
- Rationalization of mining fiscal regime
- Motor vehicle users charge
- Road users taxes
- MUP pension
- Amendment of the Fisheries Code
- Amendment of the Anti-Agricultural Smuggling Act
- Amendment of the cooperative code
- New government procurement law
- New government auditing code
- Antifinancial account scamming
- Tatak Pinoy law
- Blue economy law
- Ease of paying taxes
- LGU income classification
- Philippine Immigration Act
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