Restructuring sin taxes ‘unrealistic’ – liquor group

The government should tax BOTH the local and imported liquor HEAVILY. The problem is: the DoF officials prefer imported brands like Black label and Jack Daniels.
These sin products are billion peso industries yet the Filipino taxpayers end up shouldering the public hospital expenses of drinking-related kidney and liver diseases brought on by the excessive drinking of many Filipinos.

I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THAT!!!
I AM A TEETOTALER AND I NEVER SMOKE!!!
SMOKERS AND DRUNKARDS ARE THE MOST INSECURE CREATURES ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH!!!
SMOKERS AND DRUNKARDS ALREADY KNOW THE DANGER OF SMOKING AND EXCESSIVE DRINKING BUT THEY STILL REFUSE TO CURTAIL THEIR ADDICTION BECAUSE SMOKING AND DRINKING ARE THEIR REFUGE AND THEIR COMFORT.
CIGARETTES AND LIQUOR GIVE THEM THE CONFIDENCE AND STRENGTH THEY COULD NEVER HAVE.
PERSONALLY, I DO NOT CARE.
THEY COULD SMOKE TILL KINGDOM COME OR THEY COULD DRINK THEMSELVES TO DEATH AS LONG AS THEY DO IT IN THEIR PRIVATE ROOM OR IN A ROOM WHERE EVERYBODY ELSE IS A SMOKER OR DRUNKARD!!!
I DO NOT CARE AS LONG AS THEY DO NOT INCLUDE THE NON-SMOKERS AND TEETOTALERS AT THEIR JOURNEY TO HELL.
remember, ONE'S RIGHT ENDS WHEN ANOTHER'S RIGHT BEGINS.
your right to smoke ends when you transgress the right of a non-smoker with your secondhand smoke and your right to drink alcohol ends when you cause trouble to others!!!
SO LONG AND FAREWELL!!!
SATAN AWAITS YOU IN HELL!!!
you bet!!!

Tax cigarettes harshly. They are a useless and unhealthy addiction. If crime rises because people are stealing expensive cigarettes, then stores should stop selling them. They don't get you high, they are highly addictive, and they make you die!

CMON! the members of DSAP are already rich people! then now their saying they'll be out of Business with the proposed sin taxes? you have enjoyed your lives while you cause others ill health! that's already enough! change businesses if you have to just stop what your doing now! GREEDY DSAP members!

I do not understand why foreign liquor will be given a tax break but local liquor will be taxed more than 10 times more than it is now.

Taasan niyo ng tax, sa ibang bansa 500% nga ang tax. isang kaha ng sigarilyo P360.

I agree with the imposition of higher sin taxes but it should likewise be applied to all imported brands otherwise local manufacturer will be constrained relocate to nearby countries and will depreive our countrymen with much needed job.

'''''ta ''''na, dadating ang araw na ang mga tambay ay chivas, black label at mga katulad ang iinumin... magiging mas mahal pa ng ginebra san miguel, tanduay, matador at emperador sa mga alak na gawa sa ibang bansa... anong klase yan!!!

wag ng mag baba ng buwis sa mga imported, bagkus itaas pa dapat ang buwis nito at itaas din ang buwis ng mga lokal na alak para hindi maabot bilin ng mga kabataan at mga tambay sa lansangan, ganoon din sa hithit buga taasan ng buwis.... ang isang paketeng sigarilyo sa gitnang silangan ay doble ang presyo sa pilipinas, tax free pa ang mga bansang ito... sa singapore katumbas sa 300 piso ang isang kahang sigarilyo!

kung mamatay ang industriya ng sigarilyo at alak sa pinas dahil sa taas ng presyo ng mga pang bisyong produktong ito ay maige para ang mga namumuhunan dito sa ganitong nakakasira sa katawan na negosyo ay maibaling sa ibang negosyo at sana yon ng makakatulong ng tutuo sa mga pilipino.

Its about time the government does something about the lung cancer and liver cirrhosis epidemic

the local company for this products are going to close and they prefer to transfer to china. and our work force have no more work. so a lot of people working in this company have to find another job... a lot of company transfer in china because of excess tax and labor. someday no more company/factory are going to stay here. so we are still the loser..

masyado lng tau maka sarili... kaya tau din ang nag hihirap. ang mga foriegn company ayaw na mag tayo dito sa atin kc ang taas ng tax pati labor. balang araw puro imported na ang bibilhin natin. kc wla nmn tau sariling product... yun ang consiquences...

Don't they ever see the real picture? We have more than enough tax measures in place already..the only problem is the collection efficiency..80-98% of taxable employed people pay their taxes correctly..can we say the same of their employers and other self-employed professionals? 30-60% of these people might not be paying the correct taxes or worse, might not be paying at all...

no leave the liquor alone but tax to death those deadly tobaccos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the people pay for what those sins do,drunk driver kills 5,you play,,,,,cancer takes another poor person ,you pay again,let it be taxed ,but with taxes going to defray those cost of treatment or to bury them

so the Liqueur groups bribes the judges to keep taxes down,as a group they have power ,BUT know the people have more power,just impeach the SC judges and most other judges too