Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance
4 August 2026 By Vivienne Gulla – ABS-CBN News MANILA — The House Committee on Ways and Means on Tuesday began tackling the proposal to increase the tax-exempt annual income ceiling from the current P250,000. During a briefing before the House panel, the Department of Finance (DOF) pushed for a tax reform package, dubbed ProGRESS, […]
27 May 2021 Source: STOP Industry Brief Since its beginning in 2017, the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (FSFW) touted “independence and transparency” as two of its core principles, despite being wholly funded by tobacco giant Philip Morris International (PMI). In 2018, its mask of “independence” began to slip; the Foundation’s tax return confirmed PMI
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Preventing Tobacco Industry Interference: FCTC Article 5.3 Toolkit (2015) This toolkit presents a range of issues, policy options, and considerations that each country needs to take into account for purposes of developing country efforts for the implementation of Article 5.3 related to protection of tobacco control measures from interference by the tobacco industry of
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Last 26 June 2014, a workshop entitled ‘Way Forward to Utilize The 2% Tobacco Excise Revenue Sharing and The 10% Local Cigarette Tax for Health Objective’ was held in Lombok, Indonesia. The workshop was attended by city representatives from the Health District Office (Dinas Kesehatan), Local Planning & Development Board (Badan Perencanaan Daerah), and Economic
Lawmakers yesterday called for vigilance in protecting the gains of the country’s sin tax reform after the Philippine government received recognition from international groups for the landmark legislation. “There is a need to be extra alert against those who want Republic Act 10351 (Sin Tax Law) amended over its supposed failure to curb smuggling and
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