= Doing Business reform making it easier to do business. = Doing Business reform making it more difficult to do business.
Starting a Business: Eliminated the need to notarize the business permit application form Registering Property: The fee for notarizing the deed of sale for property registration was reduced to 1% of property value.
Starting a Business: Makes use of the National Economic Research and Business Action Center (NERBAC) of the Department of Trade and Industry, resulting in reduced registration requirements. It has also established one-time assessment and payment of fees for business registration. Dealing with Construction Permits: The Visayan Electric Company started to refund the cost of electricity connection within a year from service connection. Registering Property: The Register of Deeds in Cebu City has completed the computerization project of the Land Registration Authority, reducing the number of days to register property.
Starting a Business: Streamlined business registration by eliminating several documentary requirements, instituting one-time assessment of all fees at the City Treasurer’s Office, and enabling applicants to download the business application form from the city website. Dealing with Construction Permits: Eliminated the barangay clearance and certified true copy of land title as pre-construction requirements for building permit applications. The Davao Light and Power Company started to refund the cost of electricity connection within a year from service connection.
Registering Property: The fee for notarizing the deed of sale for property registration has been reduced to 1% of property value.
Starting a Business: Instituted the Standard Business Registration and Permit Process (SBRP), adopting a unified and single application form and implementing one-time assessment and payment of fees.
Dealing with Construction Permits: The Visayan Electric Company started to refund the cost of electricity connection within a year from service connection.
Dealing with Construction Permits: No longer requires entrepreneurs to visit the mayor’s office to obtain the locational clearance—this step has become a back room operation.
Starting a Business: Reduced the documentary requirements and time to obtain the business permit Registering Property: Property registrants can now pay the transfer tax and obtain the tax clearance certificate in a single transaction at the City Treasurer’s Office.
Starting a Business: Eliminated the requirement for notarization of the application form for the business permit.
Starting a Business: Allowed business applicants to download the business permit application form from the city website.
Starting a Business: Reduced requirements for obtaining the business permit, implemented a system of one-time assessment and payment of fees, and allowed business applicants to download the business permit application forms from the city website. Registering Property: The fee for notarizing the deed of sale for property registration was reduced to 1% of property value.
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