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Senator Ralph G. Recto hears the positions of liquors and tobacco firms on the proposed amendments to the Sin Tax law. Recto, chair of the Ways and Means committee, is holding the second public hearing on excise tax on alcohol and tobacco products. Attending todayís hearings are

SIN TAX BILL, 3RD HEARING – It was the turn of Civil Society groups, academe, NGOs, workers’ unions, farmers’ groups and health advocates to express their differing views on a proposal to hike sin taxes to curb smoking and drinking and increase tax take of