烟草在线据菲律宾信息机构报道编译　　该国最大的烟草农民组织的一名领袖表达了他对在参议院的全体会议上，通过参议员富兰克林·德里隆版本烟酒产品罪恶税的良好评论，提出卫生保健福利将来自该法案。

　　烟草种植者协会合作合并(NFTGACI)的全国联合会主席表示埃内斯托·卡林达斯说，该提议增加烟酒产品的罪恶税，最终将使烟草农民和他们的家庭受益，因为从这种税收措施中征集到的大多数税收，将用于卫生保健保险和升级政府医院。

　　15名参议员，包括参议院议长居安·庞斯·恩里莱在内，投票支持通过参议员德里隆的3299号参议院法案，寻求重新调整烟酒产品的消费税，增加400亿到500亿比索的税收。

　　由于今年的烟草种植季节即将开始，卡林达斯建议他的烟农生产高质量的烟草来满足生产高质量卷烟的卷烟制造商的需求。

　　对他而言，伊罗戈斯州长Luis Chavit Singson，即《共和国7171号烟草消费税法》的作者，保证增加罪恶税不会对弗吉尼亚烟农产生不利影响。

　　他说，任何增加卷烟产品的税收，也将增加弗吉尼亚烟草生产省份从《共和国7171烟草消费税法》中获得的资金份额。

　　根据德里隆的罪恶税版本，当前年度根据《共和国7171烟草消费税法》获得40亿比索的资金，将会变成每年的100亿比索。

　　从罪恶税中征收的大多数税收将用于政府的全民医保计划。

Phillipines: Farmer Leader Favors Passage of Propose Sin Tax Hike

　　A leader of one of the country's biggest tobacco farmers' organizations expressed his favorable comment on the passage of Senator Franklin Drilon's version on sin tax increase on cigarette products and alcohol in the Senate's plenary citing the health care benefits that will be derived from it.

　　Ernesto Calindas, president of the National Federation of the Tobacco Growers Associations' Cooperative Incorporated (NFTGACI), said the proposed increase of sin tax on cigarette and alcohol will eventually benefit tobacco farmers and their families because majority of the collected amount from the tax measure will go for health care insurance and upgrading of government hospitals.

　　Fifteen senators including Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile voted for the passage of Senator Drilon's Senate Bill 3299 seeking for the restructuring on the excise tax on alcohol and tobacco products by increasing P40 billion to P45 billion.

　　As tobacco planting season this year is now about to start, Calindas advised his fellow tobacco farmers to produce high quality tobacco to meet the demand of the cigarette manufacturers for the production of high quality cigarettes.

　　For his part, Ilocos Governor Luis Chavit Singson, the author of RA 7171 tobacco excise tax law, assured that the increase of sin tax will not adversely affect the Virginia tobacco farmers.

　　He said that any increase on taxes of cigarette products will also increase the share of Virginia tobacco-producing provinces from the RA 7171 tobacco excise tax fund.

　　Under Drilon's sin tax hike version, the P4 billion current annual RA7171 tobacco excise tax fund will become P10 billion per year.

　　Majority of the collected amount from the sin tax increase will go to the universal health care programs of government. Enditem