In Afab, green-lit foreign projects declined 99.2 percent year-on-year to P1.2 million; BOI, down 93.8 percent to P10.6 billion; Ceza, down 30.9 percent to P50 million; CDC, down 91.2 percent to P13.5 million, and SBMA, down 83 percent to P60.5 million.
From January to September, IPAs’ cumulative foreign investment approvals amounted to P75.6 billion, a 72.8-percent decline from P277.9 billion a year ago. Including IPA approvals of Filipino-led projects, the total value of investment commitments in the third quarter reached a bigger P176.6 billion as local investors pledged to rollout P145.5 billion worth of ventures.
To attract more big-ticket foreign investments and rebound from the pandemic-induced slump, the government’s economic team is pushing for the passage of the Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises bill, which will slash firms’ tax rates while providing generous fiscal perks to big-ticket projects.