VAT pakuri ni Aquino ha katawhan: Fwd: [angbayan_updates_pilipino] Imposing VAT on toll exposes Aquino regime's callousness and complete contempt for the masses--CPP
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From: Editorial Staff <angb...@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:43:38 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [angbayan_updates_pilipino] Imposing VAT on toll exposes
Aquino regime's callousness and complete contempt for the masses--CPP
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PRESS RELEASE
Information Bureau
Communist Party of the Philippines
Imposing VAT on toll exposes Aquino regime's callousness and complete
contempt for the masses--CPP
August 13, 2010
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today strongly criticized
the Aquino regime's plan to impose a 12% Value Added Tax (VAT) on
expressway toll fees starting on Monday, saying this will "only
further burden the Filipino people, especially the impoverished
toiling masses."
The Aquino government has ordered the imposition of VAT on expressway
toll fees to generate as much as P1 billion annually for its
cash-strapped government. The 12% tax will cover the North Luzon
Expressway (NLEx), Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway (SCTEx), Coastal
Road, the Skyway, South Luzon Expressway (SLEx) and Southern Tagalog
Arterial Road (STAR). The new tax will be on top of the planned 270%
increase in toll fees at the SLEx that will be implemented on the same
day.
"The added tax on toll fees burdens the people all the more and
exposes the US-Aquino regime's complete contempt for the people and
callousness in the face of their misery," the CPP said further. "The
assertion by revenue officials that VAT on toll fees is not a new tax
is hogwash."
"The people now see more clearly that Aquino was lying when he
campaigned with a promise that no new taxes will be imposed," the CPP
said, pointing out that the imposition of a new tax on toll fees comes
less than 50 days after Aquino assumed power.
"The US-Aquino regime has no qualms about shifting on the people the
rotten government's burden of a mounting budget deficit and its
ineptitude in the face of the defunct ruling system's economic
crisis," the CPP said further. There are also plans to further
increase taxes on cigarettes and other consumer items, as well as
plans to increase train fares, electricity charges and payments for
other public services.
Various sectors and personalities have stood up against the planned
tax on tolls. People's organizations point out that increases in toll
fees will cause a domino effect on fare and the prices of other
commodities. Legislators have also pointed out that imposing VAT on
toll fees is illegal as the latter are in fact already a form of tax.
"Public utilities and services should, in fact, be provided free or at
government-subsidized prices," said the CPP.
Reference:
Marco Valbuena
Media Officer
Cellphone Numbers: 09156596802 :: 09282242061
E-mail:cppm...@gmail.com
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