News Update Baguio Closes 678 Businesses

BAGUIO CITY - To enhance the city's tax collection efficiency and impart responsibility on the part of local businessmen, Mayor Mauricio G. Domogan ordered the closure of at least 678 business establishments in the different parts of the city and compelled them to comply with appropriate rules and regulations governing their respective operations. From January to present, the city government has already issued 1,071 closure orders with only 393 issued for the six months of the year while the remaining 678 others were issued over the past three months. With the simplified issuance of business permits as contained under Administrative Order No. 153, Series of 2010, the local chief executive claimed there is no longer reason for the concerned businessmen to reason out they do not have the required permits to operate because of the tedious processes that they could not follow due to their hectic schedules in their business operations.(Dexter See)