The Cebu City Council approved on Wednesday, October 28, 2020, the extension for the filing of RPT and business taxes, taking into consideration the long period of quarantine during the peak of the pandemic from March to August 2020.
This is a form of help from the city government after the many businesses has struggled through closures and halted operations. The City Treasurer’s Office already expected that they would not hit their target collection this year due to the pandemic, and the finance committee is hoping to collect more through the extension of the deadline.
Originally, the deadline was at February before it was first extended to September 30, 2020, as part of the implementation of the tax amnesty ordinance, which provided relief for delinquent payers in previous years.