烟草在线据《马尼拉时报》报道编译　　菲律宾的菲莫福川烟草公司希望颁行允许对罪恶产品征收有效消费税计划的法案版本，而不是财政部的法案版本。

　　菲莫福川烟草公司的总裁克里斯·尼尔森在媒体吹风会上说：“烟草业有270万人在就业。如果你们看一下酿酒业，他们的估计是有500万人就业。因此，换言之，这些产业聘用着770万人。单一的税制显然会给这个国家的就业前景带来严重的后果。”

　　在财政部长Cesar Purisima向烟农保证，一旦财政部的罪恶税提案版本得到颁行，会提供补贴，使他们能够转种其他经济作物之后，菲莫福川烟草公司举行了这次记者招待会。

　　他说，菲莫福川烟草公司强烈希望颁行接近于Ilocos Sur的共和党议员Eric Singson提出的允许继续实施现行税制的法案版本。另一方面，财政部的罪恶税法案版本试图改变现行的消费税多税率结构，采用单一税制。

　　政府说，如果实施新的罪恶税，烟草产品将额外产生600亿比索的税收，而不是当前的300亿比索。

　　尼尔森说：“（如果采用单一税制的话），我认为非法贸易会呈指数增长。它不会对需求产生影响，但只会对需求的供应产生影响。另一个需要处理的关键问题是税务管理。”

　　占据着菲律宾至少90%市场份额的菲莫福川烟草公司，是菲利普莫里斯国际公司与Lucio Tan的福川烟草公司组建的合资公司。

　　目前，菲律宾对每包卷烟征收的最低税率为2.72比索。尼尔森说，根据财政部的提案，菲莫福川烟草公司在三年内将要支付大约每包30比索的烟税，也就是增长1000%以上。

　　他说：“那是从未听说过的，没有人真正这么做过。根据那些大幅提税的国家——但提高的幅度也低于菲律宾的税率提高幅度——他们已经产生了严重的问题。”

　　他说，在对这些罪恶产品提高消费税率之后，菲莫福川烟草公司发现非法贸易已经在马来西亚、香港甚至新加坡等国“出现大幅增长”。

Philip Morris rejects DOF tax measure

Manila Times
Feb 22, 2012

　　PHILIP Morris Fortune Tobacco Corp. (PMFTC) wants the version of the bill that allows for the continuity of the subsisting excise tax scheme on sin products be enacted versus that of the Department of Finance' version.

　　"The tobacco industry has 2.7 million people in employment. If you look at the alcohol industry, their estimate is 5 million people. So in other words, these industries employ 7.7 million people. A unitary tax system will obviously have severe repercussions on employment prospects in this country," Chris Nelson, president of PMFTC said in a press briefing.

　　The press conference was held after Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima assured tobacco farmers of subsidy to enable them to shift to other cash crops once the department's version of sin tax bill is enacted.

　　He said that the company strongly prefers a version of the bill closer to that of Rep. Eric Singson Jr. of Ilocos Sur, which allows the continuation of the current scheme. The Department of Finance version of the sin tax bill, on the other hand, seeks to change the current multi-rate specific structure of the of the excise tax by adopting a unitary rate.

　　The government said that with the new six tax in place, an additional P60 billion in taxes will be generated a year from tobacco products versus the current P30 billion.

　　"I think the illicit trade would grow exponentially [if the unitary tax is applied]. It may not impact the demand, but will only have an impact on the supply of that demand. The other key issue which needs to be addressed, is tax administration," Nelson said.

　　The PMFTC which accounts for at least 90 percent of the country's tobacco inudstry is the combined company of Philip Morris Philippines and Lucio Tan's Fortune Tobacco.

　　At present, the lowest tax imposed is P2.72 per pack of cigarette. Under the DOF proposal, the firm will be paying some P30 in three years, or more than 1,000 percent increase, Nelson said.

　　"That's unheard of no one has actually done that. And based on those countries which took a large increase—but less than that—they already had severe problems," he said.

　　He said that the company saw illicit trade has "risen substantially" in countries such as Malaysia, Hong Kong and even Singapore after the imposition of higher excise tax on these products.