Salceda had formerly served as Albay representative inside the eleventh Congress as chairman of the Committees on Trade and Industry and vice president of the Ways and Means and Economic Affairs committees.
A former overseas fund manager and economic analyst recounted by using his friends as an expert in these fields, Salceda was also the principal creator of numerous key measures inside the House that were designed to protect domestic farmers from the poor results of the Philippines’ membership in the World Trade Organization.
Salceda suggested renaming the DOF’s tax reform plan into “Fiscal Roadmap to Acceleration and Inclusion.” He said this will highlight its primary purpose of raising sales for the authorities’s expanded spending application on infrastructure, human capital and social safety even as lowering income tax charges to place extra cash inside the pockets of wage-earners and thereby further stimulate economic growth.