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already exposed a flaw in PMFTC's arguments regarding their labor problems the year prior that it would not have happened had the tobacco giant agreed from the start to keep the government's original intent of implementing a unitary tax system for the industry. A unitary tax system means that all brands and price points would have a single rate and thus downshifting by consumers would, in theory, be mitigated. The non-government organization and anti-tobacco advocate group South East Asian
Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA) has contradicted PMFTC's claims of cooperation with governments worldwide need to be qualified. "For example, Philip Morris' collaboration with the European Union (EU) is the result of a 2004 legally binding out-of-court settlement by Philip Morris International (PMI) after it was sued by the EU for its involvement in tobacco smuggling," SEATCA pointed out. "As part of this settlement, PMI agreed to pay $ 1.25 billion over 12 years to the EU to fight illicit tobacco trade. It is unlikely that a corporation would resolve a lawsuit for over
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have questionable figures in the importation of tobacco leaves, and that the company have not declared importation of acetate tow, the material used to make cigarette filters which could not be locally sourced, for domestic consumption until 2013. However, BIR Commissioner Kim
Henares, who was in the hearing, opposed the Senate Tax Study Research Office (STSRO) data, which included the discredited information on alleged illicit tobacco trade furnished by multinational research firms AC Nielsen, the International Tax and Investment Center (ITIC) and Oxford Economics, as inaccurate, incomplete and not validated. She also added that the data used as basis for the STSRO report were biased and paid for by Philip Morris International (PMI) and that cannot be a basis against Mighty Corporation. Based on ITIC's website, one of its directors is also a ranking official of Philip Morris.
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unless they felt the case against them was strong." SEATCA had also scored a Philip Morris-funded
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370:References
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860:Additives
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