City council okays ordinance extending anew real property tax condonation deadline

TACLOBAN CITY – The city council of Tacloban has once again approved an ordinance extending the tax condonation for real properties in this city.

The ordinance that was initiated by the Councilor Jerry Uy during the regular session last Wednesday was their answer to the clamor of the taxpayers for another extension for the tax condonation.

This tax condonation extension will be the third time that the city council granted since December of last year.

To recall, before the city council had their holiday recess last December, they approved an extension of tax condonation until December 31.
It was followed with an extension until January 31, then March 31 as approved in their recent session.

With the extension of the tax condonation, the city council hopes that it will help the city government in increasing the collected income as based on the December collection of the City Treasurers Office, they were only able to collect more than P4 million but based on the Commission on Audit the city has about P60 million account receivables.

Uy also explained that in the payment of real property taxes while under the tax condonation program, surcharges and penalties are not included but only the basic tax are to be paid.

Aside from the extension of tax condonation, Uy said that in their last week’s session, they passed and approved an ordinance extending the payment for renewal of business permits applications until February 15.