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Recent “sin tax” backfires on Thailand’s tobacco monopoly
A new excise tax (dubbed “sin tax”) on cigarettes, alcoholic beverages, sugary drinks, coffee drinks and tea drinks, imposed in September this year in...
Cash-strapped Philippine government plans tax amnesty programme
The Philippine government plans the implementation of an Indonesia-type tax amnesty programme to raise much-needed revenue for the government.
Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez told Bloomberg...
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Thailand, Singapore most vulnerable to potential US recession
Southeast Asia could be seriously affected in case the US falls into recession, but some countries would be more badly hit than others, economists...