BUREAU of Internal Revenue (BIR) Commissioner Romeo Lumagui Jr. actively led on Jan. 25, 2023 the agency's first-ever simultaneous nationwide trade enforcements against perpetrators of illicit cigarette trade, placing all regional enforcers on alert and in action while conducting operations on 378 stores in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.

The government is losing up to P100 billion in tax revenues from the illicit tobacco trade, which is intended to fund basic services including the Universal Health Care program and other national development goals.

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