Taguig City announced it has moved the deadline for the payment of city taxes and other obligations to May 20, in response to the impact of the lockdown against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) on citizens.
Through Executive Order 4, Mayor Lino Edgardo S. Cayetano extended the deadlines of “all business taxes, real property taxes, transfer taxes, amusement taxes and other taxes, fees, charges and other financial obligations, due and payable to the Taguig City Government during the period of the enhanced community quarantine.”
The executive order implements City Ordinance 9 Series of 2020, signed on March 20. The ordinance authorized the city mayor to extend deadlines for taxes and other payables due to the city.
The executive order specifically applies the extensions to the payment of local business taxes due on April 20; real property taxes due on March 31; amusement taxes due on April 20; transfer and corresponding city taxes, as well as other taxes and fees, that fall due while the enhanced community quarantine is in effect. The order also extends to rents, charges, and other financial obligations to the city government.
It further ensures that the dues would not incur penalties, surcharges and interests.
The order to extend the deadline to May 20 is in consideration of the decision, earlier, of the national government to extend the filing of income and other corporate taxes from April 15 to May 15. This will, hopefully, allow our citizens ample time to efficiently settle their obligations with the national government first, before paying their obligations to the city.
“We want to ease the burden the pandemic has given to Taguigeño stakeholders,” Cayetano was quoted as saying in the statement his office issued. “At this point, the safety, security and health of the families of the city take precedence over taxes.”
“We owe this extension to them, as much as we owe them the medical and relief assistance they have received from City Hall since the enhanced community quarantine began,” he added.
As of April 1, the local government claims to have distributed food packs to 85,035 families in Taguig. These food packs, it said in a statement, contain rice, canned goods, noodles, coffee, cereal drink and bottled water. A food pack is good for three to four days for a family of five.
Taguig City said it has also distributed 54,904 kits to senior citizens, persons-with-disabilities and other vulnerable sectors in the city. A kit comes with vitamins good for 30 days, masks, antibacterial soap and instructional materials containing important information on proper handwashing, how to disinfect their homes and information on Covid-19.
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To whom the managers check payable for the payment of real property tax? Thank you