excise tax
Global crude prices move closely with local diesel and gasoline prices
March 10, 2026
We are heavily dependent on imported oil, so global crude prices move closely with local diesel and gasoline prices.
Dropping corporate taxes, rising individual and consumption taxes
March 7, 2026
The country’s tax burden is shifting from corporations to households. Poor and middle-class women and their families are hit harder as they pay VAT and excise taxes on basic household expenses like fuel, electricity, food and transport. That’s because consumption taxes like VAT and excise taxes are regressive, taking a bigger share of their already […]
6 consecutive weeks of oil price hikes burden Filipinos
August 15, 2023
Government can make oil products cheaper for Filipinos and moderate the snowball effect on the price of other goods and services by removing fuel taxes.
Gov’t can mitigate oil price hikes by scrapping fuel taxes
August 8, 2023
The Marcos Jr administration can moderate the impact of oil price hikes on millions of Filipinos by scrapping excise and value-added taxes for petroleum products.
TRAIN-driven rising cost of living makes wage hike urgent
July 9, 2018
Research group IBON said that tax-driven inflation is making the meager wages of poor Filipinos fall even further behind the rising cost of living. The group said this makes it even more urgent for the government to immediately raise wages even as it revisits the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) law behind the […]
Slow TRAIN cash transfers highlight govt’s insensitivity–IBON
February 27, 2018
The poor will get relief about three months into suffering TRAIN-induced price increases with millions of others only getting it much later Research group IBON said that the slow implementation of the Duterte administration’s social mitigation measures including its cash subsidies highlights how these are just an afterthought to cover up how the Tax Reform […]
Double taxes on oil show govt’s lack of concern for poor – IBON
February 23, 2018
Slapping additional taxes on oil products makes the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) law anti-poor, research group IBON said. Contrary to the argument that the new law is ‘fair’, the group said that these oil taxes should be scrapped for the benefit of millions of Filipinos who will otherwise continue to suffer the […]
No thanks: US behind Duterte’s anti-poor tax reform
November 13, 2017
At the onset of the much-anticipated first-ever bilateral talks between United States president Donald Trump and President Rodrigo Duterte on Philippine soil, it should be reiterated that the US has a hand in what would be the most anti-poor tax program in the country’s history. The Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) exemplifies how […]
Majority not in favor of tax reform proposals – IBON Survey
September 13, 2017
The latest survey of research group IBON showed that majority of Filipinos do not approve of almost all proposals under the first package of the Duterte administration’s proposed tax reform program. Survey respondents were informed that the government has a proposed tax reform package. They were presented with a list of some of the tax […]
