Beginning January 2, 2020, the Business Permits and Licensing Office of Mandaue began implementing a system that reduces a once 19-step procedure to three basic steps. This enables a business permit application to be issued in less than a day should there be no hitches in an applicant’s submission of required documents.
Prior to the Christmas holidays, city officials led by Mayor Jonas Cortes, Vice Mayor Glenn Bercede, and BPLO chief Lawyer Lizer Malate discussed the details of the system in a meeting with officers and members of the Mandaue Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Mandaue Filipino-Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
In the Second Step , the basis for computing is the annual / quarterly business tax payment based on gross sales receipts / income tax returns, etc. It is possible for a business to be in a Negative List of businesses that have outstanding “non-compliances” with statutory requirements. A business entity not included in the negative list during the business permit application shall be deemed to have a valid permits / clearances and shall be automatically renewed.