government concerned where the homes, residential communities or retirement villages
is located shall issue the implementing guidelines for the availment of this incentives.
6.14 Availment of Tax Deductions by Establishment Granting Twenty Percent 20%
Discount – The establishments may claim the discounts granted in sub-sections (6.1),
(6.2), (6.4), (6.5) and (6.6) as tax deductions based on the net cost of the goods sold or
services rendered: Provided, however, that the cost of the discount shall be allowed as
deduction from gross income for the same taxable year that the discount is granted:
Provided, further, That the total amount of the claimed tax deduction net of value-added
tax if applicable, shall be included in their gross sales receipts for tax purposes and
shall be subject to proper documentation and to the provisions of the National Internal
Revenue Code, as amended.
6.15 Prohibitions on Availment of Double Discounts The privileges mentioned in the
foregoing shall not be claimed if the persons with disability claims a higher discount as
may be granted by the commercial establishment and/or under other existing laws or in
combination with other discount program/s.
RULE V
PROHIBITIONS ON VERBAL, NON-VERBAL RIDICULE AND VILIFICATION AGAINST
PERSONS WITH DISABILITY
Section 7. Chapter 1. Deliverance from Public Ridicule For purposes of this Chapter,
public ridicule shall be defined as an act of making fun or contemptuous imitating or
making mockery of persons with disability whether in writing, or in words, or in action
due to their impairment/s. The following constitutes acts of public ridicule:
Making fun of a person on account of his/her disability even through jokes in a manner
that is degrading resulting to the embarrassment of the person with disability in front of
two or more persons;
Making mockery of a person with disability whether in oral or in writing;
Imitating a person with disability in public gatherings, stage shows, carnivals, television
shows, broadcast media and other forms of entertainments that are offensive to the
rights and dignity of persons with disability or any other similar acts;
No individual, group or community shall execute any of these acts of ridicule against
persons with disability in any time and place which could intimidate or result in loss of
self-esteem of the latter.
Section 8. Chapter 2. Deliverance from Vilification For purposes of this Chapter,
vilification shall be defined as:
The utterance of slanderous and abusive statements against a person with disability
such as but not limited to: (1) calling a person by his disability in public which results to
humiliation; (2) using the disability of a person as an example in a manner that is
embarrassing and humiliating to the dignity of persons with disability.
An activity in public which incites hatred towards, serious contempt for, or severe
ridicule of persons with disability.
Any individual, group or community is hereby prohibited from vilifying any person with
disability which could result into loss of self-esteem of the latter.
RULE VI
ENFORCEMENT AND PENALTY
Section 9. Penalties Any person who violates any provision of this Act shall suffer the
following penalties:
For the first violation, a fine of not less than Fifty thousand pesos (P50,000.00) but not
exceeding One hundred thousand pesos (P100,000.00) or imprisonment of not less
than six months but not more than two years, or both at the discretion of the court; and
For any subsequent violation, a fine of not less than One hundred thousand pesos
(P100,000.00) but not exceeding Two hundred thousand pesos (P200,000.00) or
imprisonment for not less than two years but not more than six years, or both at the
discretion of the court.
Any person who abuses the privileges granted herein shall be punished with
imprisonment of not less than six months or a fine of not less than Five thousand pesos
(P5,000.00), but not more than Fifty thousand pesos (P50,000.00), or both, at the
discretion of the court.
If the violator is a corporation, organization or any similar entity, the officials thereof
directly involved shall be liable therefore.
If the violator is an alien or a foreigner, he shall be deported immediately after service of
sentence without further deportation proceedings.