Duterte administration

Poorest 60% of households suffer income loss due to TRAIN

December 13, 2018

Read more: Despite rollbacks, TRAIN makes fuel more expensive–IBON

Next fuel excise tax tranche will sustain high prices

December 13, 2018

Read more: Despite rollbacks, TRAIN makes fuel more expensive–IBON

Fuel prices would be even lower if not for TRAIN

December 13, 2018

Read more: Despite rollbacks, TRAIN makes fuel more expensive–IBON

High prices still burden poor despite inflation slowdown–IBON

December 5, 2018

On the release of the November 2018 inflation rate, research group IBON said that prices are still high and rising even with the reported slowdown. This remains a burden on poor families trying to live off low and precarious incomes. Substantial and longer-term solutions are still needed, said the group. Headline inflation slowed to 6.0% […]

Despite rollbacks, TRAIN makes fuel more expensive–IBON

December 4, 2018

Research group IBON said that even with recent oil price rollbacks, the Duterte administration’s Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion law (TRAIN) increases fuel prices with an inflationary effect burdening the poor more than the rich. IBON pointed out that rollbacks have always been proven to be temporary and stressed that TRAIN’s taxes make fuel […]

TRAIN still inflationary with lifting of fuel excise suspension

November 30, 2018

Research group IBON said that government’s continued implementation of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) means that TRAIN’s taxes will keep raising prices next year and make inflation higher than it should be. The group said that lifting the fuel excise tax suspension shows the Duterte administration’s insincerity and insensitivity in addressing the […]