INSISTING that cedula or the community tax certificate is an unnecessary burden imposed on the Filipino people, a lawmaker on Wednesday pushed for its scrapping adding that it has already lost its significance and value in the present age.

According to Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero, the cedula, a form of identification, is already useless to people of today because other regular proof of identifications are already available such as passport, driver’s license and other government-issued identification cards.

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