CEBU CITY – Local Mayor Edgardo Labella said the Cebu City Government has started to implement electronic processing of transactions in response to the appeal by President Rodrigo Duterte to local governments to cut down the processing period of business permits to just three days.
Labella said his office has now required applicants of business permits to submit digital copies of their applications and required documents stored in USB flash drive. He said City Government is way ahead of the President’s call, underscoring his administration’s latest accomplishment of having launched the software application called OBO Information System (IS) Version 2.
This software application, he said, will require applicants to submit soft copies of their duly filled up application forms and papers for faster processing.
“It is my promise in our inaugural speech that building permits should be released within five days, if all the requirements are already complied with,” Labella said, adding that “more often than not, in the previous administration, it took years to obtain permits.”
Labella said that Cebu City Council Majority Floor Leader Raymund Alvin Garcia promised to sponsor an amendatory ordinance of the Cebu City Tax Code. He said the amendment of the tax ordinance seeks to allow payment of real property taxes once every two years.
Shortly after taking his oath as the mayoralty winner in the May 13 mid-term polls, Labella announced the implementation of a two-year validity of business permits, in order to make this city more business-friendly.
He reminded City Hall officials to work hard in accomplishing the policy direction of the President which aims to ease the burden of businessmen in obtaining necessary permits from the local government units. “We echo the sentiment of the President. I am giving this advice to our officials of the city, they should not delay for as long as the requirements have already been complied with,” he said.
Labella, who have been elected as national chairman of the League of Cities of the Philippines, said he wants disciplinary actions on officials delaying the release of permits. (John Rey Saavedra)
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