Category: Sin Tax Reforms

Health advocates welcome proposal to raise sin taxes

by Action for Economic Reforms | Sep 28, 2022 | Press Room, Sin Tax Reforms, Statements, Tax Reform | 0 |

The Sin Tax Coalition lauds House Ways and Means Committee Chair Rep. Joey Salceda and the Department of Health (DOH) for proposing higher excise taxes on sin products, including cigarettes, alcohol, sugar sweetened beverages,...

President Marcos, veto the vape bill

by Action for Economic Reforms | Jul 6, 2022 | Sin Tax Reforms, Statements | 0 |

In the past month, two landmark decisions in tobacco control have been made worldwide. On June 13, the Supreme Court of the Philippines ruled that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has the “competence and mandate to ensure...

Fiscal recklessness

by Action for Economic Reforms | Feb 14, 2022 | Columns, Fiscal Policy, Sin Tax Reforms, Tax Reform, Yellow Pad | 0 |

YELLOW PAD By Arjay Mercado and AJ Montesa Everyone can feel the election season in the air. With recent presidential interviews, platforms and plans are beginning to unveil with each presidential candidate aiming to get the...

Sin Tax Coalition opposes the bicameral ratification of the Vape Bill

by Action for Economic Reforms | Jan 27, 2022 | Press Room, Sin Tax Reforms | 0 |

Late in the evening of January 25, the Senate approved the bicameral conference committee report reconciling the disagreeing provisions of Senate Bill 2239 and House Bill 9007, otherwise known as the Vape Bill. The...

Sin Tax Coalition Statement Condemning the Passage of the Vape Bill (Senate Bill 2239)

by Action for Economic Reforms | Dec 16, 2021 | Press Room, Sin Tax Reforms | 0 |

On Dec. 13, 2021, the Senate approved on 2nd reading, Senate Bill 2239 (SB 2239), which loosens restrictions on the use of vape and heated tobacco products. The Sin Tax Coalition strongly condemns this act as a betrayal of trust...

Doctors call passage of regressive vape bill “the greatest betrayal of public trust and a blow for public health,” urge Duterte to veto the bill

by Action for Economic Reforms | Dec 16, 2021 | Press Room, Sin Tax Reforms | 0 |

In a press conference on Wednesday, health advocates and leaders of medical societies condemned the Senate passage of Senate Bill 2239, or the Vaporized Nicotine Products Regulation Act. The bill was approved on second reading...

Action for Economic Reforms Statement on the Passage of the Vape Bill on Second Reading

by Action for Economic Reforms | Dec 14, 2021 | Press Room, Sin Tax Reforms | 0 |

Action for Economic Reforms is in solidarity with the “Junk Vape Bill” online rally and joins the calls urging Senators to vote against this regressive bill that is anti-health and anti-youth. Yesterday, December 13, the Senate...

Economic think tank blasts Chavit Singson over tobacco tax remark

by Action for Economic Reforms | Jul 8, 2021 | Press Room, Sin Tax Reforms | 0 |

On Thursday, economic think tank Action for Economic Reforms (AER) slammed Ilocos Sur Mayor Chavit Singson for criticizing the recent tobacco tax increases. In an interview with Anthony Taberna on Dos Por Dos, Mayor Singson...

‘President Duterte must do a President Aquino’

by Action for Economic Reforms | Jul 1, 2021 | COVID-19, Fiscal Policy, Papers, Policy Issues, Sin Tax Reforms | 0 |

This speech was delivered by Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III on June 25, 2021 at the “May Bayanihan Pa Ba?” press conference hosted by the Move as One Coalition. It was published on Asia Democracy Chronicles at:...

The importance of tobacco taxes for post-pandemic recovery

by Action for Economic Reforms | Jun 14, 2021 | Columns, Sin Tax Reforms, Yellow Pad | 0 |

YELLOW PAD By Pia Rodrigo In December 2020, Tobacconomics launched the first edition of its “Cigarette Tax Scorecard,” a study assessing cigarette tax policy performance in more than 170 countries between 2012 and 2018. The good...

Statement of Action for Economic Reforms (AER) on World No Tobacco Day

by Action for Economic Reforms | May 31, 2021 | Press Room, Sin Tax Reforms | 0 |

In celebration of World No Tobacco Day, Action for Economic Reforms (AER) urges our senators to protect the health of Filipinos by passing legislation that strengthens the regulation of electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco...

Action for Economic Reforms: No clear evidence that e-cigarettes are an effective tool for smoking cessation

by Action for Economic Reforms | Oct 27, 2020 | Press Room, Sin Tax Reforms | 0 |

Amid aggressive actions of commercial interests and their political allies to undermine regulation by trying to discredit the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Action for Economic Reforms (AER) refuted the claim that...