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Capital Markets Efficiency Promotion Act

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  1. President Ferdinand R. Marcos leads the ringing of the PSE bell to welcome Day 1 of the Capital Markets Efficiency Promotion Act which aims to entice potential investors to invest in the stock market with a reduced tax rate. The new measure took effect on 1 July 2025. With the President are (from left) SEC Chairperson Atty. Francis Ed. Lim, Senator Sherwin T. Gatchalian, SAPIEA Secretary Frederick D. Go, DoF Secretary Ralph G. Recto, PSE chairman Jose T. Pardo, PSE president and CEO Ramon S. Monzon, PSE directors Ma. Vivian Yuchengco, Chief Justice Teresita J. Leonardo-De Castro (ret), and Atty. Marilyn A. Victorio-Aquino.

    Marcos rings in new investment tax reform law

    ‘Before this law, investing in stocks meant paying 0.6 percent tax, six times higher than in Singapore and Malaysia, and certainly the highest in ASEAN. Under…

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  3. Boosting capital markets

    Boosting capital markets

    CMEPA aims to deepen the country’s financial markets, stimulate trading activity, and enhance investor participation through targeted tax reforms.

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  4. Lower taxes, bigger gains for investors

    Lower taxes, bigger gains for investors

    Sales or exchange of shares listed in the Philippine stock market are subject to stock transaction tax of 0.6 percent of the gross selling price of the stock…

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