Lower cost of SMS, MMS; Make texting more convenient for relief, rescue efforts
KABATAAN Representative Raymond “Mong” Palatino today urged Congress to bury all text tax proposals once and for all as a “new” text tax bill was introduced by text tax proponents in the House Committee level early this morning.
During today’s committee hearing [...]

(Presented by TXTPower president Anthony Ian Cruz before the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on Sept. 22, 2009 at Rm. 9 and 10, Ramon V. Mitra Hall, House of Representatives)
Thank you to the distinguished Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee for extending an invitation for us to attend this hearing. Allow us [...]

September 14, 2009
Hon. Prospero Nograles
House Speaker
House of Representatives
Dear Sir:
We would like to express our firm opposition to the consolidated bill of Ilocos Sur Rep. Eric Singson HB 6625 and Rep. Danilo Suarez HR 282 seeking to impose a 5-centavo tax for every text message.
This measure will be a burden to the Filipino consumers already experiencing [...]

We are against the text tax as it would burden the country’s 56 million cellphone users, majority of which are students and young workers heavily dependent on texting and other mobile services.

Kabataan Party-list Representative Raymond “Mong” Palatino today disapproves of the approval by the House of Representatives in the committee level of a measure imposing a five-centavo excise tax on every text message, saying that the “no pass-on provision” is no assurance that consumers will not shoulder the additional burden.
“Despite statements from the authors of the [...]

Kabataan Party-list Representative Raymond “Mong” Palatino today said that instead of introducing a tex tax, the government should closely monitor the excesses committed by telecommunications companies such as text scams, charges, and vanishing cellphone loads.”Telcos reap so much profit through these mechanisms.
“The government should scrap its deregulation policy instead of imposing tax measures that will [...]