IMF Staff Country Reports

Philippines : Selected Issues

Author/Editor:

International Monetary Fund. Asia and Pacific Dept

Publication Date:

April 18, 2013

Electronic Access:

Free Full text (PDF file size is 964 KB).Use the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this PDF file

Summary:

This article is an empirical analysis on tax collections in the Philippines. The tax system is characterized by a rule of tax incentives provided by 13 investment agencies. Tax collections showed regular growth. The GDP ratio increased from 12.1 percent (2009) to 12.8 percent (2012), but the revenue-to-GDP ratio was low to fill large gaps for education, health, and infrastructure; therefore the authorities encompassed the sin taxes (alcohol and tobacco excises). The most important source of income for the Philippines is the labor export. This large-scale labor emigration fetches a sufficient amount of annual inflows of more than 9 percent of GDP.

Series:

Country Report No. 13/103

Subject:

Business cycles Capital inflows Philippines Revenue mobilization Selected issues Tax collection Tax policy Tax revenues Workers remittances