LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – The municipal government is computerizing transactions in the different offices and contribute to efforts in increasing collection from income-generating efforts of the municipality.
Mayor Romeo K. Salda disclosed various offices of the municipal government are now inputting the needed data to the computer system to help the contracted winning bidder computerize the various resource-generation endeavors of the municipality that will make transactions more efficient in the coming months.
“Our employees are currently encoding data into the system and perfect the same in the coming weeks and eventually complete the implementation of the computerized tax collection and permitting system of the municipality, thus significantly improving the services to our people,” Mayor Salda stressed.
Among those covered by the municipal government’s P22-million computerization program includes the assessment of real property and business taxes, issuance of business permits and licenses and the resource-generation services rendered by the municipal government.
Salda claimed the implementation of the town’s computerization program is part of the local government’s compliance to the newly approved law on the ease-of-doing business among other related laws, rules and regulations and the conditions imposed by the National Competitiveness Council (NCC) in the annual Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index (CMCI).
Earlier, the municipal government employees underwent a rigid training on the transfer of technology from the service provider to the municipal government for them to master the system.
According to him, the computerization of the town’s resource-generation activities will also serve as a model for other municipalities in Northern Luzon.
He underscored the local government will adopt the latest trends in information and communication technology as part of the overall efforts of the government to guarantee the effectiveness and efficiency of services to the people to maximize their time, effort and resources in completing their transactions with the different offices the soonest.
The local chief executive appealed to the public to understand the birth pains of the project with adjustments done by the supplier and the service provider so that the same will achieve its overall objective of improving the tax collection system of the municipality in the coming years.
Salda reported that responsible officials and employees of the local government will be visiting the places where such a system is being implemented to learn how the same could be effectively and efficiently implemented in the municipality.
By HENT