GOLEZ IS AUTHOR OF LOWER VAT RATES FOR BASIC COMMODITIES: Congressman Roilo Golez is the author, together with a number of other congressmen, of reducing the VAT rates for basic commodities like sardines, cooking oil, noodles, etc. from 10% to only 6% and for pandesal from 10% to zero %. Golez is shown in photo reporting to Paranaque housewives the initiative of the House to make VAT a gentler and kinder tax measure.