Get cedula or pay P5T: City Hall

Companies and individuals in Cebu City have until the end of the month to secure a community tax certificate (cedula) before the City Treasurer’s Office (CTO) starts inspecting.

City Treasurer Ofelia Oliva said those who could not present their cedula once accosted by her office’s 21 sub-collection teams will be asked to pay a penalty.

“The deadline is on Feb. 28. After that, we will inspect (the establishments),” Oliva said.

She said the Omnibus Tax Code imposes a two percent interest per month and P5,000 as maximum penalty for violators.

She said that individuals could secure a cedula from their barangays, while establishments must get theirs from her office at City Hall.

Fees

The basic fee for a cedula is P5, and an additional P1 for every P1,000 in gross sales for businesses and P1 for every P1,000 of salary.

Another P1 is also demanded for every P1,000 in income from real properties.

“After the last week of February, the teams will go out and include in their field collection activities, in the inspection of business establishments without permits, the cedulas,” Oliva said.

“We will also include professionals who have not paid professional tax receipts, whose deadline was last Jan. 31 yet,” she added.

Her office, Oliva said, will have another team that will inspect and examine the books of accounts of business establishments suspected of under-declaring their gross sales and gross receipts.

“We will go after them, particularly those stamped ‘subject to examination’ during the renewal of business permits for the year (last January),” she said.

Requiring the cedula is not considered a new form of taxation because the CTO is simply enforcing what is allowed under the law.

The City is setting up in the north district and the south district 21 barangay-based collection districts, with each having 13 personnel, including a designated deputy city treasurer and a deputy assistant city treasurer.

Services

The collection districts will process permits, renew or accept new applications, and accept payments of other taxes and fees.

Oliva encouraged the barangays to help the districts meet their quotas because in exchange, they will receive their realty tax shares after every five days from the end of the month, instead of after every quarter.

The barangays’ share of community tax paid by their respective residents, she said, will also be given every end of the month instead of at the end of the year.

Aside from accepting payments and permit applications, each collection district will also conduct tax-mapping of their area, which covers clustered barangays.

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