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Suspension of Excise Taxes on Fuels: Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, chairman of the Senate Committee on Economic Affairs, along with Senator Nancy Binay, quiz the country's economic managers during the hearing on the impact on inflation of the suspension of excise tax on fuels, Wednesday, October 24, 2018. Gatchalian said that there is a need to address the "welfare loss" being suffered by minimum wage-earner families, "who are increasingly unable to afford basic commodities due to high prices of goods." (PRIB Photo by Cesar Tomambo/ 24 October 2018)