Indirect taxation
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| Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz |
Truth to tell, the detestable indirect taxation imposed on consumer goods is not only in fact inequitable but also in effect unconscionable. There is ample reason to think that those who thought of this cruel design, proposed and approved its highly questionable legislation, belonged to the elite, the rich and famous. They must have immense resources and fat bank accounts. Hence, while duly preoccupied by direct taxation on their immense assets in cash and kind, its odious complementary part in terms of indirect taxation was however a non-issue to them. They were definitely not those who counted every peso in their pocket and who even did not know to get their next peso.
But the poor and destitute, the beggars and tramps, yes, they too pay indirect taxes on the goods they consume day after day — in the amount just like those in tenure of power and in possession of wealth. Yes, even but new born babies start paying indirect taxes the moment they are born. Their parents, those living in posh subdivisions as well as those living in squatter areas, all pay for them exactly the same amount of indirect taxes imposed on such items as cotton and alcohol, powder and milk..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110324com5.html
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