{"id":33211,"date":"2014-11-30T22:33:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T14:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=33211"},"modified":"2014-11-30T22:33:27","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T14:33:27","slug":"lawmaker-calls-for-congressional-inquiry-into-proceeds-of-sin-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/11\/30\/lawmaker-calls-for-congressional-inquiry-into-proceeds-of-sin-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmaker calls for congressional inquiry into proceeds of &#8216;sin tax\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_131293751.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33213\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_131293751.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_131293751\" width=\"362\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_131293751.jpg 362w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_131293751-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMANILA, Philippines &#8211; Cagayan de Oro Rep. Rufus Rodriguez has called on his fellow-congressmen to launch an inquiry into the alleged inability of the administration to set aside a sizeable chunk of the income generated from the Sin Tax Law to fund the universal health care program.<\/p>\n<p>House Resolution 1591 authored by Rodriguez calls for a congressional inquiry, by which officials of the Department of Finance (DOF), Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) andDepartment of Budget and Management (DBM) will be mandated to clarify the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter its enactment two years ago, many Filipinos are still not covered by the universal health care program of the government and many cities and provinces are still without public clinics and hospitals,\u201d Rodriguez said.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that Republic Act 10351 or the Sin Tax law \u2013 which was set into motion on Dec. 18, 2012 \u2013 was supposed to generate added revenue of up to P34 billion; with the purpose, in part, of financing the government\u2019s universal health care program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe law was enacted to cover millions of Filipinos in the government universal health care program and the promise that the government will construct public clinics and hospitals throughout the country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is incumbent upon the DBM and DOF to report to the House of Representatives and provide information on whether the goals of the law were met and where the money was utilized,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines &#8211; Cagayan de Oro Rep. Rufus Rodriguez has called on his fellow-congressmen to launch an inquiry into the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":33213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-business","mauthors-angie-duarte","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}