{"id":6453,"date":"2017-09-11T18:37:48","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T10:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibon.org\/?p=6453"},"modified":"2017-09-28T14:02:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T06:02:28","slug":"the-majority-poor-do-not-gain-from-income-tax-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/the-majority-poor-do-not-gain-from-income-tax-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Under TRAIN, the majority poor do not gain from income tax reforms (TRAIN Infographic #3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gmail_default\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"gmail_default\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The DOF&#8217;s estimates of personal income tax\u00a0<\/span><\/span>gains for the poorest Filipinos erroneously assumes that the poorest Filipinos currently pay income tax.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">\n<p class=\"gmail_default\">This is untrue because the BIR&#8217;s records indicate only some 5.6 million taxpayers at present who are wholly from the highest income brackets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail_default\">The poorest Filipinos do not pay income tax now so, contrary to the DOF&#8217;s claims, they have nothing to gain from the income tax reforms.\u00a0They will however pay an additional Php47.0 billion in additional VAT, petroleum, and sweet beverages\u00a0<span class=\"m_3282556519600620521m_9190840857093790464gmail-m_-3057150156883911885gmail-il\">taxes<\/span>. This does not include further inflationary effects.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6454\" src=\"http:\/\/ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Final_TRAINPoorDontGain.png\" alt=\"Final_TRAINPoorDontGain\" width=\"1226\" height=\"1054\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Final_TRAINPoorDontGain.png 1226w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Final_TRAINPoorDontGain-300x258.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Final_TRAINPoorDontGain-768x660.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Final_TRAINPoorDontGain-1024x880.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Final_TRAINPoorDontGain-600x516.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1226px) 100vw, 1226px\" \/> <\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DOF&#8217;s estimates of personal income tax\u00a0gains for the poorest Filipinos erroneously assumes that the poorest Filipinos currently pay income tax. This is untrue because the BIR&#8217;s records indicate only some 5.6 million taxpayers at present who are wholly from the highest income brackets. The poorest Filipinos do not pay income tax now so, contrary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6454,"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":""},"categories":[4,39,12,533],"tags":[1098,1005,347,177,116,1099,563,1077,1006],"class_list":["post-6453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headline","category-infographics","category-national-socioeconomic-situation","category-tax-reforms","tag-anti-poor-taxation","tag-ctrp","tag-duterte-administration","tag-neoliberal-policy","tag-philippine-economy","tag-pro-rich-tax-system","tag-regressive-taxation","tag-tax-reform-for-acceleration-and-inclusion","tag-train","wpautop"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-23 22:00:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=6453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6468,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453\/revisions\/6468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}