The Bureau of Customs (BOC) - Port of Zamboanga destroyed over half a billion pesos worth of smuggled cigarettes at a warehouse in Zamboanga City on June 13. The BOC Port of Zamboanga is ramping up its anti-smuggling efforts in Region 9 and Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, resulting...
A tobacco company said that ratifying the anti-agricultural economic sabotage bill will minimize the losses from the government’s revenues and farmers. Japan Tobacco International (JTI) said that the increasing illicit cigarette trade in the Philippines poses a significant threat to the...
Smuggled cigarettes with a total value of P17.7 million were seized by the Bureau of Customs in the Port of Davao. During an inspection, the BOC, along with Task Force Davao, yielded 15,150 reams of cigarettes, 35 sacks of assorted shoes, and one unit of truck. The BOC-Davao is set to file the...
Some P6 billion in excise taxes from the tobacco industry have been lost so far this year due to illicit trade and shift to electric cigarettes, an official from the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) said. Venus Gaticales, BIR chief of excise large taxpayers field operations division, told reporters...
Smuggled cigarettes with a total worth of P2.3 million were intercepted in Iligan City checpoint, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) reported. The BOC said that the agents from District 10 led an operation that yielded 2,899 reams of undocumented Fort and Cannon Methol cigarettes on May 16 at a checkpoint...
In response to President Marcos' directive to crack down on tobacco smuggling, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) successfully intercepted an attempted smuggling operation that originated from Singapore. In a statement, Customs Commissioner Bienvenido Y. Rubio, said the shipment of illicit cigarettes...
The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) launched a large-scale operation against illegal cigarettes, resulting in the confiscation of over P5.4 billion worth of illicit tobacco from warehouses in Indang and Dasmariñas, Cavite. In a statement on Monday, April 8, BIR said the raid last March 21 led to...
Electronic cigarettes or vape worth P151.1 million in taxes were seized by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) in three warehouses in Manila City and Rizal province. In a statement, BIR Commissioner Romeo D. Lumagui Jr. reported that a total of 63,139 units of illegal vape products that have...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) will be running after owners of e-cigarette stores located near schools, with the focus on protecting the minors after more than 6,700 were apprehended from May 1 to Dec. 31 last year for vaping in public places. In the meantime, PNP spokesperson...
Electronic cigarettes or vape worth P75 million in deficiency taxes were seized during a warehouse raid in San Pablo City, Laguna, the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) reported Thursday, March 14. BIR Commissioner Romeo D. Lumagui Jr. said that a raid led by the Philippine National Police Criminal...
SAN PABLO CITY, Laguna – Police seized undocumented e-cigarettes worth P65 million in a warehouse in Purok 6, Barangay Bautista, this city, on Monday night, March 11. POLICE, with the Bureau of Internal Revenue, raided a warehouse storing undocumented e-cigarettes with an estimated market...
Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Teodoro Herbosa sought on Wednesday, March 6, the assistance of the Philippine National Police (PNP) to ensure that minors will have no access to e-cigarettes amid cases of young Filipinos suffering from lung injuries. Herbosa said he specifically asked PNP...
