Health reform advocates, civil society organizations, and government representatives gathered to assess the performance of Sin Tax Reform laws passed from 2012-2020 on health outcomes, revenues, expenditures for health and tobacco-producing local government units, and illicit trade, and how the country should move forward from these learnings.
Co-organized by iLEAD, Vital Strategies for Tobacco Control Division, the Sin Tax Coalition and Action for Economic Reforms, the event titled “Sin Tax Strategies for a Healthy Philippines: A Public Forum on the Past, Present and Future of Sin Tax Reform” is part of the initiative “Strengthening Budget Coalitions to Support the Philippine National Tobacco Control Strategy through 2030.”
The initiative aims to empower advocacy coalitions further in engaging the national budget cycle to fund the National Tobacco Control Strategy through 2030 (NTCS) and to improve future rounds of sin tax reform by sharing three key documents:
A Performance Review of Sin Tax Reforms from 2012 to 2020; An Investment Case to Fund the National Tobacco Control Strategy (NTCS) and; Alaga sa Baga: Guidebook on Local Tobacco Control Programs for Local Governments and Citizens.
