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‘Smuggling, fake products killing tobacco farmers’

Senatorial candidate and Ilocos Norte Gov. Imee Marcos on Wednesday urged the government to crack down on cigarette smugglers and manufacturers of counterfeit tobacco...

Tobacco tax

Tobacco farmers trooped in front of the Senate gate to express their sentiments to the senators on the increase of excise tax in tobacco. 

House okays increase on tobacco excise tax

The House of Representatives’ Committee on Ways and Means on Tuesday passed a bill increasing the unitary excise tax on tobacco products. The committee, chaired...

Higher tobacco excise tax seen to hit farmers

Lawmakers from tobacco-growing provinces in Northern Luzon asked the Senate to study the negative impact of the government’s plan to raise anew the excise...

North Alliance slams tobacco tax hike

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Tobacco tax hike pushed to offset losses from oil tax

Senator JV Ejercito on Wednesday called on economic managers to consider raising taxes on tobacco products to offset the loss that would be incurred...

Group slams ‘inserted’ low tobacco taxes

A GROUP is protesting a surprise insertion favoring a lower tax rate for tobacco products in Congress, saying that may result in 200,000 more...

Farmers fume over tobacco bill

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A long-overdue tool for aggie development

Recently I had occasion to speak about the government winning only half of a battle that it had launched. That was when I wrote...

Philip Morris looking towards cigarette phase-out

Tobacco giant Philip Morris is aiming to stop selling conventional cigarettes and replace them with a less harmful product, its chief executive said. As the...

BAT launches e-cigarette as alternative to tobacco

The British American Tobacco said will launch an “alternative to tobacco” product in the Philippines, the first country in Asia-Pacific to take advantage of...

Finance to prepare ‘healthy tax’ package

The Finance Department said Thursday it will submit to Congress early next year a “healthy tax” package, which includes imposing tax on sweetened drinks...

High-value crop

Farmers in Balaoan, La Union harvest tobacco. DAVID CHAN
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