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Misor vice guv sends sangguniang workers to four-day seminar MISAMIS Oriental––True to his promise of professionalizing effectively the entire SP employees, VG Joey Pelaez personally managed and designed the program flow of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) first Team building and Strategic Planning at Duka Bay Resort, Medina, Misamis Oriental on September 12-15, 2013. Very particular with the content and substance of the four-day activities, VG Joey went to the extent of inviting Resource Persons from various fields of expertise from personality development, Strategic planning and Workshop, and Branding for the 4-working days of the said activity. On the first day, SP employees underwent a Teambuilding and Personality development session facilitated by Mr. John Paul Lanot, a TV and Event Host, TV and Voice talent, and a Motivational Speaker. During this session that SP employees get to be informed and reminded, through their openness and personal admissions, of the present working environment and occupational and professional relationships. On the second day, it was another serious session of Strategic Planning and Workshop facilitated by Mr. Rudenio C. Eduave, a Human Resource Management and Organizational Development Consultant. Mr. Eduave discussed and reinforced the appropriate strategic methodologies on crafting the SP employees’
vision, mission and the formulation of short, medium and long-term plans. One staff during the said session admitted that the she was very fortunate in having participated in the session. She added that SP has four interconnected and interdependent functions among Legislative, Administrative, Communications and IT divisions. On the third day was the seminar on Misamis Oriental branding presided by Mr. Benralph S. Yu, a Corporate Management Trainee of Nestle Philippines and Ms. Kathryn Gayle S. Quiwa, a fourth year student from Ateneo de Manila University. The speakers were successful in engaging SP’s employees of classifying and defining Misamis Oriental SP brand “A Happy Mis.Or.” in the daily exercises of the various functions of the SP office. At the night of the third day and the fourth day was the culmination of the seminar of SP employees where VG Joey Pelaez gave a speech. In his speech, VG Pelaez reminded SP employees really work in delivering the best services they can render to the people of Misamis Oriental. He also reassured to SP employees that his office will be very supportive and more delighted to be of help and instrument in the development and professionalizing the SP employees which the Vice Governor hopes to aid for a better and a truly working Sangguniang Panlalawigan.
MISAMIS Oriental Vice Governor Joey Pelaez sent all the Sangguniang Panlalawigan Staff to a four-day Team Building, Personality Development, Strategic Planning and Branding Training Workshop last September 12-15, 2013. This is part of his promise to professionalize the Sangguniang Panlalawigan employees in order to serve effectively and efficiently the people of the province for “A Happy MisOr.J”
No more exemptions of authority to print receipts CAGAYAN de Oro City–– No more exemptions would be extended to all business enterprises in the city and the rest of the region by using the old Authority to Print (ATP), the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) said on Monday. The use of the old ATP has already lapsed after the deadline on August 30, 2013, Samson Q. Carcueva, Assistant Revenue District officer of BIR-10, said. Carcueva said that all principal and supplementary receipts /invoices printed prior to January 18, 2013 are no longer valid, business sectors caught using the dated receipt after the deadline will be slapped with a penalty of P1000 to P50, 000 if not the agency
will resort to drastic measures such as the shutdown of the establishments. He said that the new revenue regulation aims to curb abuses in the use and issuance of official receipts, sales invoices and other commercial invoices. Based on the BIR RR No. 18-2012, all business taxpayers were required to apply from the BIR an Authority to Print (ATP) for the printing of new sets of their principal and supplementary receipts/ invoices on or before April 30, 2013. In giving leeway to the business sectors an extension was set to another deadline which is August 30, 2013. According to the new
order the ATP is issued per establishment (HQ or branch) valid only upon the full use of inclusive serial numbers of all invoices or five years from issuance, whichever comes first. Carcueva said this also serves as the regulation was a necessary reform to address serious problems, including the proliferation of fake receipts that are being sold to tax evaders and smugglers, and unscrupulous acts by some BIR personnel whose relatives used to own receipt printers previously accredited by the BIR. Carcueva said the BIR in Northern Mindanao would strictly campaign against tax evaders in the region in order to meet
the quota in the revenue collection which was 28 percent higher than last year’s collection of P390 million. He said that the BIR would also conduct the tax compliance verification drive of tax mapping to more than 30,000 registered big time and small business establishments here. The tax mapping would identify taxpayers who failed to apply to the ATP receipts, Carcueva added. Carcueva urged the business sectors to surrender all unused/unissued receipts/invoices to the RDO where the taxpayer is registered on or before the 10th day after the expiration of the validity period for destruction. LRJ
MNLF, religious group pray for peace in M’nao
CAGAYAN de Oro City–– About 50 members of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) here led a rally dubbed as “Prayer for Peace in Mindanao” at the Divisoria Plaza here on Sunday. Sammy Tagalog, the head of the MNLF in Northern Mindanao, said the peace rally was also participated by Christians and other religious groups who want an end to the Zamboanga City armed clashes between former MNLF rebels and government forces. He said that the MNLF in Northern Mindanao has
Policemen stand guard as dozens of members of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) hold peace rally in downtown Cagayan de Oro Monday. Mindanao Daily News Photo by Gerry L. Gorit
nothing to do with the ongoing armed skirmishes with government troopers in Zamboanga City. “We have been living
in peace since the MNLF and the government forged a peace pact in 1996 and provided the MNLF various livelihood projects in the
region,” Tagalo said. Other Christian and religious groups that joined the prayer for peace rally here were representatives from the Aid to Life Ministries, Jesus for All Nations, Youth of Glory, Lamp Foundation and the Philippine Envangelical Network in praying for peace. During the prayer rally the MNLF and other sectoral groups signed a covenant to build a culture of peace in the region in particular and in Mindanao in general. GERRY GORIT, Staff Member, Mindanao Daily News