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BY MAE SINGUAY
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January 18, 2018
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BACOLOD City – Business permit registration and renewal in the city are extended until Feb. 28.
The Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) yesterday moved the deadline to cater to businesses that have not yet finished transacting their registrations.
The SP also moved on the same date the deadline for the payment of business tax for the first quarter of the year.
Councilor Caesar Distrito, chairman of the SP committee on laws, ordinances and good government, authored the ordinance extending the deadline, which was originally set on Jan. 20, after the Metro Bacolod Chamber of Commerce and Industry requested for such through Mayor Evelio Leonardia.
“The extension will exempt businesses that failed to secure business permits from paying penalties and surcharges,” Distrito said.
City Permits and Licensing Division head Stella Rose Rayos welcomed the extension. She said there are still numerous establishments that were not able to process their permits.
Rayos added that with the deadline moved, the operation of the Business One-Stop Shop (BOSS) at the Bacolod City Government Center is also extended.
The BOSS aims to make easier and faster the business permit transaction in the city. It started operating on Jan. 3.
Leonardia said the BOSS is in line with the local government’s vision of making Bacolod a business-friendly city.
Leonardia said he wants to restore the “business confidence” and establish a “conducive climate for businesses” in the city.
On the other hand, Executive Assistant Samuel Montoyo is determined to file a complaint against nonparticipating villages in the BOSS.
Montoyo gave barangays Montevista, 2, 4, 16, 18, 19, 27, 29, and 31 until yesterday to participate in the BOSS before he files a complaint against them before the Office of the President, he said.
But barangays 2, 4, 16, 19, and 31 still failed to put up their desks at city hall yesterday.
On Dec. 19, Mayor Evelio Leonardia issued a local executive order requiring all villages in the city to put up their desks at city hall so that business permit applicants can process their barangay clearances there.
BOSS is in line with Republic Act 9485, or the Anti-Red Tape Act of 2009, which directs all government offices to improve efficiency in the delivery of government services to the public by reducing the bureaucratic red tape and preventing graft and corruption.
“Red tape” is a term for “excessive regulation or rigid conformity to formal rules that is considered redundant or bureaucratic and hinders or prevents action or decision-making.”/PN
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