Some Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) and netizens are thanking President-elect Duterte for the increase in the tax-exemption ceiling for balikbayan boxes from P10,000 to P150,000.
While this is truly a piece of news worth celebrating among OFW communities and their families in the Philippines, given how much OFWs love sending their love and care with every balikbayan box, it seems like the credit was given to the wrong person.
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Yes, Duterte has previously expressed sympathy for the plights of OFWs and vowed to take care of them during his administration.
Should President-elect Rodrigo Duterte really deserved to be credited for this?
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