BAGUIO CITY – Real property owners in the city might soon reap the benefits of tree planting as the city government looks at granting tax incentives to properties that maintain trees. City Council information officer Jordan Habbiling, in a media release on Tuesday night, said the measure was broach
(File photo) BAGUIO CITY - Real property owners in the city might soon reap the benefits of tree planting as the city government looks at granting tax incentives to properties that maintain trees. City Council information officer Jordan Habbiling, in a media release on Tuesday night, said the measure was broached during the latest city council meeting where the officials discussed the increase of real property taxes as a result of the 2020 ordinance that increased the market value of lands from 1 percent to 300 percent to as high as 4,000 to 5,000 percent. Habbiling said an owner of a hotel along Leonard Wood Road who was allowed to speak during the session described the increase in real property tax as "inequitable and exorbitant." He said according to the resource speaker, some property owners have resorted to converting their green areas and cutting trees to build structures or use them for economic activities to raise the money for real property taxes. "Vice Mayor Fa
SunStar Newsstands in Baguio given 6 months
HARD HIT. Newspaper vendors are among the hard hit during the Covid-19 pandemic as they grapple to look for other means of livelihood with the City Government s pending plan to remove them from the sidewalks. (Redjie Melvic Cawis)
+ THE call for freedom of information has been heard. with conditions from City Hall.
In a meeting with newsstand vendors and owners on Tuesday morning, December 15, City Hall officials agreed to give vendors six months to operate their street side stalls.
Attending the meeting were journalists, publishers and general managers of newspaper organizations who have all cried foul over the move to evict the newspaper vendors of their stalls in a bid to assert their importance to the information chain.
SunStar Newsstands in Baguio given 6 months
HARD HIT. Newspaper vendors are among the hard hit during the Covid-19 pandemic as they grapple to look for other means of livelihood with the City Government s pending plan to remove them from the sidewalks. (Redjie Melvic Cawis)
+ THE call for freedom of information has been heard. with conditions from City Hall.
In a meeting with newsstand vendors and owners on Tuesday morning, December 15, City Hall officials agreed to give vendors six months to operate their street side stalls.
Attending the meeting were journalists, publishers and general managers of newspaper organizations who have all cried foul over the move to evict the newspaper vendors of their stalls in a bid to assert their importance to the information chain.