City puts on hold giving of biz permits

THE issuance of business permits to all establishments in City Time Square (CTS) and some establishments along A. S. Fortuna St. in Mandaue City is being held for having a “defective contract of lease.”

Despite this, City Treasurer Regal Oliva said they can still continue to operate as the City is giving them 90 days from the day of their business permit renewal to comply with the requirements.

In a press conference yesterday, Oliva received instructions that some business permits will be held as the establishments committed violations.

“As of today, I have received instructions that there might be some businesses that are held in abeyance. In other words, we are not releasing their permits because they might have violated some regulations and ordinances of the city,” said Oliva.

Among the requirements is the contract of lease because most of the leasors, or the owners of the properties being leased, do not have business permits.

“Mangolekta ra man na sila’g abang mao nga (Leasors just collect the rent that is why) we are requiring them (businesses) to present their contract of lease so that we can also tax the leasors to be fair,” said Oliva.

He said that mostly the leasors are the ones that have not complied with taxes requirements.

For the businesses leasing in CTS, Oliva said they are not the ones violating for they have been complying with the requirements to get a business permit.

The City Treasurer’s Office (CTO) learned that the CTS has a problem with its “mother lease.”

Oliva is waiting for the instruction from a higher official if they already talked with the CTS management about this matter so CTO can start releasing the permits of the businesses there.

Defective contract of lease is also a problem in some establishments along A. S. Fortuna St.

The CTO collected a total of P486.396 million for business tax this year, which is higher than the P418.959 million last year.

As of yesterday, Oliva said there are close to 10,000 establishments that renewed their business permits.

“We are picturing about 14,000 (businesses) so there might be 4,000 that are delinquent. Delinquent meaning not necessarily that they are open. Maybe they might have closed already pero wa sila ni-retire dinhi so delinquent gihapon na sila (but they have not retired or informed CTO that they have closed so they are still delinquent),” he said. (FMG)

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