The National Council on Disability Affairs (NCDA) clarified that not all institutions are mandated to offer reductions to individuals with disabilities (PWDs).
According to Maki Pulido’s report on “24 Oras,” Jasper Salceda mentioned that as a former most cancers affected person, the 20% low cost on medication, hospital, diagnostics, and laboratory charges in accordance with the usual advantages and privileges of PWDs had helped him rather a lot financially.
Besides the medical service reductions, PWDs are granted at the very least a 20% low cost on motels, eating places, leisure facilities, and home and sea journey. They are additionally exempted from 12% value-added tax (VAT) and have a 5% low cost on prime and primary commodities.
However, a tweet from Jasper just lately acquired viral the place he requested why the reductions on the desserts he purchased from totally different institutions weren’t the identical.
“Pumunta po ako sa dalawang cake shop, on the first cake shop, binigyan po nila ako ng 500 peso discount tapos sa ikalawang cake shop, ang binigay lang po sa akin in 17 pesos so naguluhan po ako,” he shared.
The second cake store then defined that it divided the value into ten to 12 parts and solely primarily based the low cost on one portion.
Based on the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of Agriculture’s joint Administrative Order, solely prime and primary commodities like rice, corn, bread, recent, dried, and canned fish and different marine sea merchandise, recent pork, beef, and poultry meat, recent eggs, recent and processed milk toddler formulation, recent greens, root crops, espresso, sugar, cooking oil, salt, laundry cleaning soap, detergents, firewood, candles, and different commodities are included for the PWD reductions.
The NCDA additionally cleared that the low cost doesn’t embody desserts and pastries in addition to imported noodles, quail eggs, sweeteners, and meals dietary supplements.
“Yung 5% is out of the goodness of the establishments. Yung 20% deductible from the tax by the establishment so governemnt yung nagso-shoulder nito,” mentioned Mateo Lee, deputy govt director of NCDA.
In addition, solely P1,300 price of primary commodities per week will probably be lined by the 5% low cost, and all purchases should be written within the PWD buy booklet for monitoring.
Small companies equivalent to cooperatives, sari-sari shops, meals stalls, meals courts, and meals distributors are additionally not required to offer a 5% low cost.
“Ang idea talaga ng mga discounts na ito is to make the poor people access basic necessities and prime commodities,” Lee added.—Sherylin Untalan/LDF, GMA Integrated News
