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Tobacco farmers yet to feel benefits of excise tax shares

By VERA Files. Photos and video by DANIEL ABUNALES | May 08, 2016 11:45 AM

Second of two parts (See Part 1: Like Arroyo, Aquino gov’t releases billions to LGUs before elections) ALCALA, Pangasinan — At the end of the newly opened section of the Tarlac-Pangasinan La Union Expressway, the one that exits at Rosales town, is a huge monstrosity of a structure, appearing empty and abandoned. It is supposed […]

2016 elections, burley, tobacco

Like Arroyo, Aquino gov’t releases billions to LGUs before elections

By VERA Files | May 08, 2016 11:22 AM

First of two parts THE Aquino government has distributed some P10 billion pesos to select local government units mostly in Northern Luzon on the eve of the 2016 elections, repeating a practice employed by the Arroyo administration which President Aquino has repeatedly called a corrupt government. The funds represent the LGUs’ share from excise taxes […]