Added Tax on Cigar Will Make Each Pack Cost Like Gold
Smoking may soon not be too relaxing at all to those who are used to ease out tensions from their system with a few puff as the government is bent on increasing cigarette tax.
The Department of Health (DOH) two days ago announced that the government is to increase taxes on cigarette by P4.50 per stick which easily makes a box of cigarette cost tobacco-lovers P90. If approved, a stick of cigarette will cost around P5.50 – P7.50 for those who cannot afford to buy by pack.
This proposed increase on cigarette tax will hit an estimated 17.3 million Filipino smokers including our very own President Aquino.
So far, this is just a proposal that came up during the meeting of government health workers with the representatives of the Framework Convention Alliance Philippines (FCAP), an anti-tobacco advocacy group aimed at reducing the number of Filipino who are into smoking and at the same help the government increase tax collection amidst the P300-billion budget deficit.
The proposal elicited mix reactions from tobacco lovers but majority seems to air out the thought that such an initiative will surely make many Filipino smokers think twice before buying a stick and puffing as majority of smokers in the country are on the poverty line.
Off to you folks especially to all those who smoke; do you agree with the proposed increase on cigarette tax that would make a pack of cigarette cost around P90?
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I think it’s about time. They tried making smoking illegal, but it obviously did not work. Maybe this should.
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Making it illegal would lose the government alot of money…but adding tax to tobacco products will even help the government earn more money from taxes and at the same time will make the health department save a good amount of money for the problem of many on lung diseases caused by smoking.
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