Includes index.

Historical background -- Tax principles and tax policies -- Shifting and incidence -- Taxation : income and wealth (income taxation) -- Taxation : wealth and income (other taxes) -- Taxation : production and sale -- Taxation production and sale (other taxes) -- Organization for tax policy planning and administration -- Local taxation -- Tax incentives for development -- Promoting tax consciousness in the Philippines -- Revision of the tax code (The Consolidated tax code law)

The principal goal of the Philippines is the attainment of higher living standards for the Filipino People. But like most of the developing countries, the Philippines is caught in a vicious circle poverty, a circle which starts from low incomes of the greater mass of the people with a high propensity to consume.