The government has dropped the proposed unified tax collection scheme, as it counters the Aquino administration’s initiatives to increase revenue from mining industry, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said on Monday.

Environment Secretary Ramon Paje told reporters that they are now working on new permutation on the proposed revenue-sharing scheme, citing concerns raised by the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) that the present proposal might be lower than the existing collection.

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