While cigarette prices continued to rise through the sin tax law, illicit traders also got bolder as shown by the latest arrest by the police of five people in two provinces.

Cigarette bootlegging has been a thriving business and costs the Philippine government billions of pesos in lost taxes in spite of sizable takes annually from licit cigarette sales since Republic Act No. 10351 or the Sin Tax Reform Law was implemented in 2013.

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