THE government should not touch the 12 percent Value Added Tax exemption for senior citizens, a lawmaker said over the weekend.

“Our senior citizens need more benefits, not less. Any proposal to increase the VAT should be studied carefully, but the existing exemption for senior citizens should be non-negotiable,” Laguna Rep. Sol Aragones, a former television reporter, stressed.

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