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The current proposals in the Senate that cigarette industries must have the rate
of taxation that are uniform or is not progressive but remains the same proportion in all
amount. Therefore, in terms of whether the sales tax progressive or regressive in the
year it was adopted. It is regressive. It’ll boost the other business firms too to kick in and
having considerable proficient to compete with leading firms. It’ll be a burden to the
manufacturers of native cigarettes because they’ll be facing with the same tax rates as
With the numbers of Filipino people who are smoking and with the low cost of
leading cigarette manufacturers that’ll match the price of the non-leading manufacturers
situation of the excise tax for Tabaco in the Philippines which is there is a higher tax of
tobacco but Filipino smokers seems to be undaunted and tobacco industries still remain
for seeing that there is still a high rate of demand despites the rising taxes they must
pay. Therefore, there is no substitution and consumers will remain to their chosen
cigarette brands.
Beer Sales on Downtrend, Taxes Blamed
Question1. Is the demand for beer price elastic or inelastic? Explain and
illustrate.
An elastic demand or elastic supply is one in which the elasticity is greater than
Therefore, with regards to the case situation whether the demand for beer price is
elastic or inelastic, it is inelastic because the firms is facing sales downtrend, because
even the price was still consistent and demand of consumers was still consistent same
price, but the taxation was continue raised up which brought to economic failure to the
firm and with making the firm to compete with their losses they must need to be on a
high risk of response to their supply in relation to the change of the product’s price to
There are certain things that will affect this elasticity such as: the availability of
for government to spend less. In short term, it has same effect on the balance sheet as
increasing revenues. In the long term, it has a significantly better impact that does
increasing taxes.