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Mighty’s closure seen to hurt 55,000 tobacco farmers in PH

Hundreds of thousands of Filipinos will be affected if the government makes good on its threat to close down homegrown tobacco company Mighty Corp.,...

HB 4144 a balancing act, says ex-BIR chief

The recently passed House Bill No. 4144 is a delicate balancing act from a national policy standpoint, as it seeks to address competing concerns...

Solons cited for protecting lowly farmers

Archbishop Sergio Utleg, D.D. of the Archdiocese of Tuguegarao commended lawmakers for passing a measure that considers the plight of lowly tobacco farmers. The Archbishop...

Big tobacco farmers group backs cigarette tax bill

The National Federation of Tobacco Farmers Association and Cooperatives has backed House Bill 4144, calling it the “true pro-farmers measure and pro-poor.” NAFTAC president Mario...

Tobacco farmers support two-tier cigarette tax

The National Federation of Farmers Association and Cooperatives, the biggest group officially recognized by the National Tobacco Administration, threw their support for the passage...

House panel okays tobacco tax bill

IGNORING the protest of tobacco farmers that the passage of the amended sin tax bill was being railroaded, the House committee on ways and...

‘Give us share of sin tax’

SAN JOSE, Occidental Mindoro—Tobacco farmers from this agricultural municipality have asked the government to give them their fair share of the tobacco excise tax. The...

Farmers sue ex-congressman for plunder over tobacco tax

Lingayen—A group of tobacco farmers from Pangasinan  filed plunder charges  against former Congressman Mark Cojuangco last week over alleged misuse of close to P600...
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