[ Manila Bulletin Online ] October 23, 2008
By JACK C. GADAINGAN
NAVAL, Biliran -- To enhance revenue generation, the provincial government, and five of this province’s component municipalities are into full computerization and interconnectivity on the real property tax system.
This developed after the first release of P24 million from an P80-million loan package from the Department of Finance’s Program Lending (Prolend) that paves the way for the initial stages of implementation, including training of computer encoders and operators who are the end-users of the computerization and interconnectivity system.
Trained for five days at the Biliran Provincial Information Technology Learning Center (BPITLC) were two personnel each of the Office of Municipal Assessor, Office of Municipal Accountant, and Municipal Treasurer’s Offices of the municipalities that opted to be interconnected with the provincial government’s taxation system.
These towns are Almeria, Kawayan, Cabucgayan, Culaba, and Biliran.
But due to partisan politics, the towns of Naval, Caibiran, and Maripipi declined to be included in this computerization and interconnectivity program which is cost-free.
Biliran Gov. Rogelio Roger J. Espina said the computerization program will transform the province and its component municipalities into electronic local government units (e-LGUs), and establish an accurate and transparent scheme on real property and business tax sharing between the province and the towns.
