No performance audit since 2009: Salceda wants ERC to conduct audit, mandate improvements in NGCP after transmission-related blackouts, or face phase-out of preferential tax treatment
House tax panel approves bill to criminalize tax racketeering; Committee increases penalty for syndicated tax fraud from 2 years to 20 years but keeps it bailable
Amid national water crisis: Salceda asks Monetary Board: Extend Agri-Agra loans to water districts; Financing to help solve water issues in rural communities
“Triply contractionary:” Salceda calls out econ agencies for slower Q1 disbursements, urges faster implementation of government programs to insulate PH economy
Salceda calls for tariff revenues from agri imports to “flow back” to domestic agriculture sector; stronger inspection, IATF-like body against biosafety threats to domestic agri pushed
