DOES ATENEO CARE?: AWARENESS IN THE CAMPUS

To know the level of awareness of Ateneans regarding the Expanded Value Added Tax (EVAT) law our group has conducted a survey among 50 students of the Ateneo de Manila University. Through our data we found out that there are many students who are aware that such a law exists in our country having 44 out of the 50 respondents say they are aware that such a law is in effect but when asked on what the law really does most are only aware of the 2% increase in tax on the food that they buy especially the ones they buy on fastfoods having 42 respondents say that it is what is greatly affected among the things they regularly purchase. We also found out that not too much students are aware that petroleum products and utilities would also be greatly affected by this law. Furthermore when asked about the effects EVAT could possibly bring to our country most students are a bit pessimistic that it could really improve and help the country’s present situation having only 17 respondents say that they think it would have a positive effect for the economy. Also a lot of students think that this new tax measure is only an added tax burden for the people especially to the poor in society and that this only leads to more funds available for those in government to corrupt. When asked when corporations’ tax rate would also be affected or only those of the citizens only 7% knew that the tax rate that the corporations have would also increase is affected by this law. (See appendix for complete survey results.)