Cigarette makers paid P148B in excise taxes in 2019

Credit to Author: Mayvelin U. Caraballo, TMT| Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 16:53:10 +0000

EXCISE tax payments of cigarette manufacturers rose last year, accounting for more than half of the government’s total sin tax collections, data from the Department of Finance (DoF) showed. The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) collected P147.5 billion in ‘sin’ taxes from cigarette products in 2019, up 8 percent from the P136.5 billion collected a […]

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