Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 21:14:03 +0000
President Duterte has signed into law a measure hiking the excise rates on tobacco products, Malacañang confirmed on Thursday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: acerojano| Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2019 08:32:34 +0000
The House of Representatives has already committed to adopt the Senate version of a measure that seeks to raise the excise tax on tobacco products, Senate President Vicente Sotto III said Monday.
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 10:28:31 +0000
MANILA, Philippines – The Senate committee on ways and means has agreed, in principle, to raise the excise tax on tobacco products, Senator Sonny Angara said on Friday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 03:28:49 +0000
Raising the excise tax on alcoholic products could generate P32.3 billion in 2019 and help fund the proposed universal health care program.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2019 06:54:18 +0000
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian described as a “positive development” the country’s inflation rate which slowed down at 4.4 percent in the first month of 2019.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 04:35:09 +0000
Health advocates on Tuesday gathered outside the Senate complex in Pasay City to urge senators approve the bill seeking to further increase the excise tax on tobacco products.
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 06:36:54 +0000
Senator JV Ejercito wants the government to suspend the second wave of fuel excise tax hike for six months.
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Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2019 02:37:03 +0000
President Rodrigo Duterte approved the Department of Health (DOH) and the Department of Finance’s (DOF) proposal to increase the excise tax on alcohol and tobacco products.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 09:14:38 +0000
In anticipation of the signing of the Universal Health Care, Senator Pacquiao renewed his call to raise the excise tax on tobacco products.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2018 12:25:20 +0000
Paris police and store owners were bracing for new violence at protests despite President Emmanuel Macron’s surrender over a fuel tax hike.
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