21 December 2005
Alcala ushers in new era with Tax Code
ALCALA – Desiring to improve further its delivery of basic services and development planning at the turn of the year, this town finalized its revised Revenue Code of 2005 and has set in place all systems for achieving sound financial financial status in 2006 and beyond.
The Sangguniang Panlalawigan which reviewed the new municipal tax code passed by the Alcala sangguniang bayan led by Vice Mayor Clemente Arboleda, Jr. to attain the visions of the municipal administration headed by Mayor Manuel T. Collado, stamped its approval on the Code with slight corrections last week.
The provincial board’s move paved the way for a full implementation of the Revenue Code starting next year in what Sangguniang Bayan secretary Teresita A. Llarenas called “a vital piece of legislation that spells continuing progress of the town guided by the vision of its leaders.”
In an interview with Mayor Collado by the Pangasinan Star, he said it was about time a change in the municipal taxes and fees was implemented as the last tax code was drawn up over a dozen years ago when the peso was still much stronger than today.
Collado said services to constituents in these times of inflationary rates cannot but suffer unless local leaders summon the will and creativity to devise a better revenue system than what they presently have and one such way, he said, is an updated tax code.
He stressed that due public hearing was held on the proposed revenue code “and more or less, the people knew and understood how important such a measure is to the town’s overall development.”
He said the revenue to be realized from the Code will support major development programs particularly on health and sanitation. He took pride in the town’s having not just one but two municipal physicians, beating other bigger towns, despite Alcala being only a fourth-class town by local government code standards.
Collado added that Alcala now has a medical technician and laboratories to emphasize its seriousness in caring for public health -- a subject his fellow Alcaleneans once experienced the glare of undue and unfair national and international publicity for at the height of the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) scare.
In 2004, Alcala was found in a Service Mission Attainment Report of the Local Government Performance Management System (LGPMS) to have been “very effective” in Administration specifically in the areas of “development planning, resource allocation and utilization, financial accountability, customer service, human resource management and development and slightly on revenue generation.”
A parallel move to improve the lives of Alcaleneans, most of whom depend on agriculture, has been set in motion likewise by Vice Mayor Arboleda, piloting a novel livelihood start-up capital project in one barangay as part of the town’s economic empowerment of the people.
The project works on a no-collateral loan for groups of residents who want to engage in productive undertakings but who have no money to do it.
The Sangguniang Panlalawigan which reviewed the new municipal tax code passed by the Alcala sangguniang bayan led by Vice Mayor Clemente Arboleda, Jr. to attain the visions of the municipal administration headed by Mayor Manuel T. Collado, stamped its approval on the Code with slight corrections last week.
The provincial board’s move paved the way for a full implementation of the Revenue Code starting next year in what Sangguniang Bayan secretary Teresita A. Llarenas called “a vital piece of legislation that spells continuing progress of the town guided by the vision of its leaders.”
In an interview with Mayor Collado by the Pangasinan Star, he said it was about time a change in the municipal taxes and fees was implemented as the last tax code was drawn up over a dozen years ago when the peso was still much stronger than today.
Collado said services to constituents in these times of inflationary rates cannot but suffer unless local leaders summon the will and creativity to devise a better revenue system than what they presently have and one such way, he said, is an updated tax code.
He stressed that due public hearing was held on the proposed revenue code “and more or less, the people knew and understood how important such a measure is to the town’s overall development.”
He said the revenue to be realized from the Code will support major development programs particularly on health and sanitation. He took pride in the town’s having not just one but two municipal physicians, beating other bigger towns, despite Alcala being only a fourth-class town by local government code standards.
Collado added that Alcala now has a medical technician and laboratories to emphasize its seriousness in caring for public health -- a subject his fellow Alcaleneans once experienced the glare of undue and unfair national and international publicity for at the height of the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) scare.
In 2004, Alcala was found in a Service Mission Attainment Report of the Local Government Performance Management System (LGPMS) to have been “very effective” in Administration specifically in the areas of “development planning, resource allocation and utilization, financial accountability, customer service, human resource management and development and slightly on revenue generation.”
A parallel move to improve the lives of Alcaleneans, most of whom depend on agriculture, has been set in motion likewise by Vice Mayor Arboleda, piloting a novel livelihood start-up capital project in one barangay as part of the town’s economic empowerment of the people.
The project works on a no-collateral loan for groups of residents who want to engage in productive undertakings but who have no money to do it.
