Seniors may keep VAT, discounts exemptions

THE Department of Finance (DOF) clarified anew that senior citizens may continue to have the 20 percent discount on purchases and exemption medicines and raw food.

program, the government is putting in place direct subsidy programs for the - exemptions, DOF Spokesperson Paola

to seniors when dining in restaurants, would have to be lifted,” because who usually avail themselves of such privilege, she stressed.

the government would allocate the money to a fund that would be used to provide subsidies to the poor, including indigent senior citizens,

“Now if we compare this to a senior citizen who has to make ends meet for him to be able to afford his mainte would go a long way. This is how we want to distribute a little wealth through

She made it clear that the 20 percent discount enjoyed by all senior citizens would remain, as well as the - ing medicine and food in raw form.