Newly registered BNs accounted for 88.8 percent of the total, equivalent to 827,491, while the remaining 104,606 were renewals.
According to data from the Philippine Standard Industrial Classification, most of these businesses are into retail, with 180,406 into retail and selling through “sari-sari” stores.Those into real estate buying, selling, renting, leasing and operating of self-owned or leased apartment buildings, nonresidential and dwellings followed in third.
Pascual said they intend to make business registration less complicated and seamless, and are working together with the Department of Information and Communications Technology to fully implement an end-to-end registration in support of e-governance measures toward a more efficient public service delivery and better experience for the public.
Trade Assistant Secretary Mary Jean Pacheco told the Inquirer back then that they already presented to lawmakers the DTI’s plan to give a three-year tax exemption to newly registered online merchants under the proposed “Internet Transactions Act.”Pacheco said they suggested that sole proprietorships—businesses that have one owner—must not be an affiliate, subsidiary or a franchise of any existing company to avail themselves of this tax exemption.
New businesses wanting to take advantage of this tax perk must also have no previous or existing registered companies or partnerships. INQ