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Tax not the poor texters

By Rey Gamboa | June 25, 2004 - 12:00am

The urong-sulong hesitation of government to tax text messages reflects on its desperation to look for ways and means of increasing state revenue collections but at the same time being wary and sensitive to the backlash...

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