SP Approves The Granting Of Incentives To Municipal Treasurers,Revenue Clerks

Jan. 28,2010

SP Approves The Granting Of Incentives To Municipal Treasurers, Revenue Clerks
By Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.

Maasin City, Southern Leyte-The Sangguniang Panlalawigan has recently approved on its third and final reading resolution no.693-s.2009 granting incentives to all municipal treasurers and their respective revenue clerks in this province.
During the presentation of the proposal by SP Jason Calva, Chairman Committee on Finance and Appropriation, it was learned that only the municipal treasurers in the province who are going to receive such kind of incentives.
However, considering that it’s the revenue clerks who are doing the real property tax collections in various barangays of each municipality’s Agustin Escaño,Jr., Chairman Committee on Agriculture and Tourism, suggested that the incentives which depend on their tax collections target, would be shared by the revenue clerks as well.
Calva accepted Escaño’s suggestion, which in turn supported by SP Teopisto Rojas, Jr., Chairman Committee on Laws, Ways and Means, who said that its equal sharing is meritorious and justifiable.
The Chair on Finance informed that the incentives to be granted is in the amount of P1,000 per month.” This is based on the collections as set by the Dept.Of Finance”, he said.
He further reiterated that the incentives from every municipal treasurer are based on the collection efficiency rate of real property tax, not exceeding P1, 000 per month.
Calva claimed that in concrete terms, the sharing would be 40% for the municipal treasurer and 60% to be shared equally among the collectors involved. “If for instance, a certain municipality has only collected 70% of the target, not P1, 000.00, they will only receive P700.which is percentage-wise, he said.
SP Cesar Rey for his part, disclosed that when he was still a Councilor in Bontoc town, they also gave incentives to the tax collectors in the field, which had depended on the targeted per quarter collections.
Prior to the approval of the abovementioned resolution Calva also informed the august body that he had discussed it with Governor Damian Mercado and Provincial Administrator Crispin Arong, Jr. who conceded for its implementation starting the current year.
Moreover, the granting of such incentives to each municipal treasurer regarding real property tax collections was practiced already by the previous administration of third-termer Governor Rosette Yñiguez-Lerias.
However, this practice was abolished when Governor Mercado took the helm of leadership since he defeated Lerias’ daughter Dondeet in the gubernatorial race during the past national elections.
It was only last November 2009 that the revival of such practice was proposed and was approved by the members of the Provincial Board the following month of December 2009.(Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)