DAVAO CITY—The cities in the Davao Region all shot up beyond their collection targets with Davao City nearly doubling the target collection.
For this, this city received the recognition plaque from the Region XI office of the Department of Finance-Bureau of Local Government Finance (BLGF) as “Top Performing Local Government Unit (LGU) in Real Property Tax Collection.”
The city government collected P2,260,636,000 in real property tax, a figure almost double its target collection of P1,183,883,000 for last year. This is 190.95-percent collection efficiency.
“The tax collection efficiency earned recognition not only for the City Treasurer’s Office but also the City Assessors Office for its comprehensive assessment of real properties in support of the revenue generation program of the BLGF Region XI,” the city government said.
The DOF-BLGF also handed plaques to the City Treasurer’s Office, City Assessor’s Office and Davao City Mayor Sara Z. Duterte “for their support to the program.”
The other cities in the region were not far behind in exemplary collection performance. The DOF-BLGF XI also recognized Digos City, Mati City, Panabo City, Island Garden City of Samal (Igacos) and Tagum City for exceeding their targets as well.
The Tagum City LGU also hit near-double collection with 162.84-percent collection efficiency, followed by the Island Garden City of Samal, with 139.54 percent. Both cities belong to Davao del Norte.
Another Davao del Norte local government, Panabo City, showed a stellar collection of 138.97-percent efficiency. Mati City of Davao Oriental came up with 121.20 percent and Digos City, with its 112.17-percent collection efficiency.