Projects and Campaigns
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Tax Justice
This paper, authored by Maita Gomez of Action for Economic Reforms, seeks to address the problems and obstacles faced by LGUs in the generation of revenues from their most stable and most substantial source, real property. The focus of the study is on the poor performance in Real Property Taxes.
Sin Tax Reforms
Last week, Representatives Victor Ortega (1st District La Union) and Eric Singson (2nd District Ilocos Sur) defended tobacco interests, arguing that there is no need to correct the excise tax on tobacco and cigarettes. They repeated the call earlier made by Phillip Nelson, President of Philip Morris and Fortune Tobacco Corp. This if-ain’t-broke-don’t-fix-it argument is wrong.
