{"id":19594,"date":"2026-04-14T01:34:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=19594"},"modified":"2026-04-14T01:34:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:34:18","slug":"pbbm-removes-excise-tax-on-lpg-kerosene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/pbbm-removes-excise-tax-on-lpg-kerosene\/","title":{"rendered":"PBBM REMOVES EXCISE TAX ON LPG, KEROSENE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has removed the excise tax levied on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and kerosene to provide relief to Filipino families amid the current energy emergency.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cBinawasan natin ang buwis sa produktong pretrolyo na direktang ginagamit sa pang-araw-araw na buhay,\u201d President Marcos said in a statement in Malaca\u00f1ang on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cSo, sa ilalim ng kapangyarihan na ibinigay sa atin ng batas, tinangggal ko na ang excise tax sa LPG at sa kerosene,\u201d the President added.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The removal of tax is equivalent to P3.36 per kilo of LPG, or almost a P37 reduction for every tank of LPG and P5.60 for every liter of kerosene, a substantial reduction in cooking expenses of Filipino families.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>President Marcos signed R.A. 12316 last month, allowing him to temporarily suspend or reduce fuel excise taxes for up to 3 months per instance (maximum of 1 year) when Dubai crude oil prices exceed a certain per-barrel threshold.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The President also signed Executive Order 110 on March 24, declaring a state of national energy emergency in light of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The order authorizes the chief executive to declare a critically low energy supply or imminent danger, and to implement the fuel and energy allocation plan and other energy conservation measures.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The EO also adopted Unified Package for Livelihoods, Industry, Food, and Transport (UPLIFT) as the government\u2019s coordinated, whole-of-government response framework.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has removed the excise tax levied on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and kerosene to provide relief to Filipino families amid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19596,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19594\/revisions\/19596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}