Cops take time to send text messages during SONA Rally on July last year at Commonwealth Avenue, Quezon City. File Photo/ Keith KP Bacongco

Still not a good news even if the government will remove the 12 percent Value Added Tax on oil products. Because it will impose tax on text messaging as possible source of revenue. This only goes to show how greedy this government is. So much tax are being imposed in everything and yet the people is not getting what’s really right for them.

Gov’t eyes tax on SMS to cover loss from oil tariff reduction
(Updated 11:45 p.m.) Trade Secretary Peter Favila on Wednesday said he personally favors a tax on text messages as a possible additional source of revenue in the light of proposals to scrap or suspend taxes on oil products. Favila said in an interview at Malacañang that imposing a tax on SMS could make Filipinos shift their focus on endeavors that are more productive.

On the other hand, some senators slammed the proposed cut on oil tariff. The said that it’s still inadequate. I agree, it’s not really enough. The government is just trying to appease the public by imposing this cut on oil tariff. At any rate, it is sill not enough to satisfy Juan dela Cruz.