Comments on: Excessive Fees Bad For Business

By: Henry E. Samonte

Henry E. Samonte — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 01:05:54 +0000

I have been fighting the unjustifiable taxes impose by Q.C. Local government since 2004 when the Columnist by the name of Neal Cruz of Daily inquirer wrote an article with a title, “Greedy Quezon City Councilors plans to raise Real Estate Tax.” I hand delivered my letter of inquiry to 20 Q.C. Councilors and copy furnished the former Mayor Feliciano Belmonte Jr. why is there in need of raising the taxes considering that the Local Government has unspend 2 billion pesos. That was on year 2004.

It is the duty of any government employees to reply within 15 days upon receipt any letter address to them, but unfortunately, not one of the 20 Q.C. Councilors ever reply to my letter. This is how callous our local government is.

Then again, last year 2009, I confronted Mayor Feliciano Belmonte, one on one, and asked him why there was a drastic increase on the Mayor’s Permit. He rebuff me and said, “If you can not pay your Mayor’s permit, then close up!’

Undaunted, I investigated the legality of the drastic increase and found out that the mere issuance of a Memorandum of the then Chief City Treasurer of Q.C. was the reason of the increase, without the benefit of any City Ordinance.I obtain two certification from the City Archive and the record section of the Q.C. Treasurer’s Office certifying that there was no City Ordinance as far as the increase is concern.

Using the two certified documents, I filed an Administrative case against the former Chief City Treasurer of Q.C., Victor Endriga Ph.D. But, I was told by the receiving clerk of Office of the OMbudsman that for almost 20 years, since that treasurer was still in Pasig, not one complaint against him ever prospered.

I also attended the Public Consultation on proposed Parking Fee in Q.C. sponsored by Councilor Suntay. Then again, I caught the Councilor lying when he said Q.C. revenue was only 4 billion pesos when the Newpapers was already declaring that Q.C. ranks no. i in revenue generation and hit more than 10 billion pesos. Another cheating the Councilors did is to invite the whole Q.C. Barangay Council to represent as public parties, when in fact, Barangay Council members is the lease representative of Q.C. residence. These groups are beholden to City Hall and therefore not reliable party during Public Consultation on enactment of City Ordinance.

Feeling that Q.C. Local Government has graviously violated their Oath of Office, I run as Independent Q.C. Mayor Candidate last May 10, 2010 election. Had I won, I would lower drastically all sorts of local taxes including Real Estate Tax here in Q.C. I would even go to the extend to declare TAX HOLIDAY until we consume all the savings made by Q.C. local government.

I believe that the Local Government has no moral ground to enrich itself by over taxing its constituents. The reason for taxes is to provide fundings on specific projects, and it has never been the intention to commit social injustice by unjustified and unilateral excessive taxes in any form. And this is what is happening in Q.C.

I believe that we, residence of Quezon City should stand up and resist the Local Government Officials from abusing their Oath of Office of making extremely hard for the tax payers to meet their obligation.

This is the times of hardship wherein people can hardly make both ends meet because of high prices on everything. It is unfair for Q.C. Local government to impose its illegitimate and abusive tax system.

By: I hate makati

I hate makati — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 06:13:00 +0000

Bad trip sa makati, sobrang takaw ng mga taga municipyo, 40,000 na ang nailalagay namin para sa buss. permit, hangang ngayon, 1 month na di parin na-rerelease. kainis!!!

By: Migraine

Migraine — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 06:13:20 +0000

hindi lang po sa QC ang nagtaas ang business permit fee
pati rin po dito sa San Pedro, Laguna
yung last year na P1500 na binayaran ko for my 6units Computer Shop, P5200 na ngayon…

Sama talaga ng loob ko, pinalalabas pa nila na 120,000 daw ang kinita ko last year…

pupunta ulit ako para linawin kasi di ako nagbibitaw ng pera hanggat di ako nalilinawan…

sana hindi tayo makuntento lang sa salitang “nagtaas na”

we have our own rights to know WHY!
kasi pera natin ang tinatanggap nila…
pera pera ang usapan…

By: Gerry

Gerry — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 05:14:07 +0000

http://goquezoncity.ph/qc-resources/business-permits-licensing-office-bplo/comment-page-1/#comment-653

By: Jose

Jose — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:58:08 +0000

I’m sure para mas marami sila makurakot nyan, ayaw ko na magbayad para sa bagong kotse ng mga magnanakaw dyan sa QC, I will be doing something about this next year

By: lisa

lisa — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:26:51 +0000

i checked this out and it turns out that qc taxing system was pushed by the counsilors of that city to further give qc enough funds for local projects.

well that by the way sucks and who knows, they passed it for more kurakot. kaya damn qc officials

By: Jose

Jose — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 03:13:38 +0000

Nakakainis talaga yan QC city hall, deadline kahapon kaya ang haba ng pila pero instead of announcing the extension on a much earlier time, sinabi nila late na kaya ung nagpagod dun kagabi sa pila nasayang lang di tulad sa manila, as early as 3pm sa afternoon may announcement na ng extension of payment….yan ba ang business friendly city nyo!!!

By: bp

bp — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 01:04:29 +0000

“short ako ng 5,000″

if this wasn’t tragic it would be funny.

i wonder if mayor herbert bautista even knows about this.

By: Mister Sobrang Na-Shock

Mister Sobrang Na-Shock — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:53:25 +0000

nag-renew rin ako kahapon. ang dala kong pera ay yung binayaran ko last year. syempre nagdala ako ngkonting extra para kung sakaling may increase. hindi naman natin maiiwasan sa panahong ngayon ang mga increases. pero sobrang na-shock ako kasi yung CITY TAX na binayaran ko na 50 pesos last year ay 5,000 pesos na ngayon. bakit nagkaganon? so tinanong ko yung nag-assessed. ang sabi ko ay, “Sir, baka nagkakamali ka?” sabi niya ay hindi raw. yun lang ang sinabi niya. sana pinaliwanag niya kung bakit ganon kalaki ang increase. kinalabasan, hindi ako nakapagbayad kahapon kasi short ako ng 5,000.

By: katushka

katushka — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:54:48 +0000

I’ve been processing my business permit since Monday, January 17. I brought the exact amount of what I paid last year plus additional P1,000 in case there will be another increase for this year which has been the case for the past 3 years. After tax assessment, I was shocked to find out that there was an increase of P3,000 on city tax and an additional increase of P100 on new sticker/plate. So, I decided to go back today since all I have to do is pay and process the business permit. I got there at 9am and I finished the payment, just the payment at around 3:30 in the afternoon.

What I don’t understand is the fact that when you ask them why there is an increase, all they can say is “nagtaas na”. I asked again why. And all they can say is “nagtaas na”.

Isn’t it funny that we pay higher taxes and they cannot even give us a better explanation than “nagtaas na”??? Isn’t it funny that we pay higher taxes and the system inside what they call “state of the art tax hall” does not even improve??? So why do we have to pay our taxes then????

CRAP!!!!