Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2019 09:47:27 +0000
Congress approved Tuesday a bill increasing the excise tax on tobacco products after President Rodrigo Duterte certified the measure as urgent.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 04:45:24 +0000
The phased hike on cigarette excise taxes in tranches will help address the threat of smuggling of tobacco products, Senator Sherwin Gatchalian said Wednesday.
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Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 26 May 2019 05:22:35 +0000
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian admitted on Sunday that if the bill on the tobacco tax hike would not be passed into third and final reading within this week, it may not be signed into law.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 12:03:50 +0000
The senators “agreed to do our best” to pass the bill seeking to raise the excise tax on tobacco products before Congress adjourns.
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 16:30:07 +0000
MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Health (DOH) reiterated its call for the passage of a bill that would increase tax on tobacco and alcoholic drinks, citing that doing so would save lives and would help fund the newly signed Universal Healthcare Act.
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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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Credit to Author: Sam Nichols| Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 14:33:06 +0000
“It may be counter to anything you’ve heard before, but just like everything—they lie.”
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 08:52:50 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — Senator JV Ejercito welcomed the approval of President Rodrigo Duterte on the proposal to raise excise tax on alcohol and tobacco products, saying it would allow the “sustainable implementation” of the universal healthcare bill (UHC).
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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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Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 21:30:43 +0000
For the past 16 years, Emer Rojas, an engineer, has been the local poster boy of the ill effects of cigarette smoking.
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