A senior lawmaker on Monday asked the House Committee on Ways and Means to issue subpoenas against 10 brokers, importers and facilitators amid reports of widespread and large-scale smuggling of agricultural commodities in the country.
Sultan Kudarat Rep. Horacio Suansing Jr., author of House Resolution 311 investigating the smuggling of basic commodities and tobacco, with the end in view of proposing remedial measures, urged the committee to subpoena 10 individuals allegedly involved in large-scale agricultural smuggling in the Philippines.
“It is our hope that this inquiry will help hold accountable and will reveal to our nation’s taxpayers, dutiful citizens, and most of all, to our local farmers the officials of government responsible for facilitating the proliferation of agricultural product smuggling in the country,” he said. For her part, House Committee on Ways and Means Senior Vice Chairperson Mikaela Angela Suansing, also author of House Resolution 311, said the unabated smuggling of these commodities deprives the national government of billions of pesos in much-needed revenues from uncollected taxes and customs duties.
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