Filipino Workers In The Philippines

In our present time where poverty is dominating, many of the Filipino workers are experiencing lots of extreme problems such as paying higher rates of income tax. Did you know that the Philippines have the second highest income tax rates amongst its ASEAN-6 peers? Thailand and Vietnam are the leading countries which has a 35% tax rate whereas in the Philippines, its tax rate is 32% which is almost tantamount to the tax rates of the former countries. The mere difference is only 3% of it. My only question is why do have to pay so much? Who is this for? Is this for the corrupt official who steal our money or for the Filipinos specially those suffering in poverty? What must be the solutions to these problems that keep on arousing in this existing environment? Our Filipino workers today pays a large amount of taxes, come to think of it, in their situation, they earn a 600 peso wage each day (which is the minimum amount of money paid to a single worker). They pay 192 pesos for tax however they never benefited from these. If this would happen, it would only leave you with 408 pesos but you would never get the chance of spending this money for your family 's sake because you also have to pay government bills such as SSS or GSIS. Therefore for every 600 pesos profit that every Filipino workers earn each day, you can only settle approximately 200 pesos or below each day for your own family use and this is obviously too less if you have more than 4 members in one