MULI na naman umanong tataas ang presyo ng bilihin pagpasok ng 2020 dahil sa Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion.
Ayon kay Bayan Muna Representatives Carlos Zarate at Ferdinand Gaite ito ang ikatlong yugto ng pagtataas dulot ng TRAIN.
“Even if the Department of Energy is telling oil companies to first deplete their old stocks before imposing the added excise tax on oil products, without the unbundling of the prices of oil products we cannot tell for certain if the oil companies are already passing on the new excise taxes,” ani Zarate.
Ipinatupad ang TRAIN noong 2018.
Sa ilalim ng TRAIN, ang buwis sa diesel ay daragdagan ng P1.50 kada litro, ang gasolina, kerosene at liquefied petroleum gas ay tataas naman ng P1.
“Since the record high surge in prices in basic goods in 2018; prices have not gone down and it has nowhere to go but up because of the last tranche of TRAIN Law 1,” ani Gaite. “The supposed lower inflation in 2019 being peddled by economic managers would be wiped out with the new price increases as well as higher demand for oil in the international market.”
Ang pagtaas umano ng presyo ng produktong petrolyo ay mayroong domino effect sa presyo ng mga bilihin.