{"id":17879,"date":"2026-03-07T19:19:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/?p=17879"},"modified":"2026-03-07T19:35:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:35:49","slug":"corporate-vs-consumption-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/corporate-vs-consumption-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropping corporate taxes, rising individual and consumption taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The country\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s because consumption taxes like VAT and excise taxes are regressive, taking a bigger share of their already limited incomes than from the wealthy. These women and their families can get relief from a progressive tax system that cuts VAT and excise taxes while taxing the rich and big corporations more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260307-1105hrs_tax-revenue-copy-819x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17883\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260307-1105hrs_tax-revenue-copy-819x1024.png 819w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260307-1105hrs_tax-revenue-copy-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260307-1105hrs_tax-revenue-copy-768x960.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260307-1105hrs_tax-revenue-copy-1229x1536.png 1229w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260307-1105hrs_tax-revenue-copy-1638x2048.png 1638w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country\u2019s 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\u2019s because consumption taxes like VAT and excise taxes are regressive, taking a bigger share of their already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":1773488135,"_expiration-date-type":"draft","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[39],"tags":[4193,530,4192,527,2972,837,836,777,525],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17879"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17886,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17879\/revisions\/17886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}