The Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) is challenging all local government units in the country to fully comply with the electronic Business One-Stop Shop (eBOSS) system, emphasizing that automating government processes is an effective way to fight red tape and increase revenues which can be used to finance the LGUs’ programs and projects.

ARTA Director General Ernesto Perez stressed that under Republic Act (RA) 11032, or the Ease of Doing Business and Efficient Government Service Delivery Act of 2018, all LGUs must establish eBOSS by June 17, 2021.

“It’s a requirement for LGUs, so we need to step up our target. Actually, they should have complied with it by June 17, 2021; we just extended the deadline,” he said.

Perez explained that an LGU can be tagged as fully compliant with eBOSS when it already has established an online system to receive electronic business applications through a Unified Application Form; can issue electronic tax bill, Fire Safety Inspection Certificate Fee, and Barangay Clearance Fee; is capable of issuing electronic versions of permits; and can accept other modes of payment aside from cash.

The ARTA chief noted that currently, 35 LGUs have been tagged as fully compliant with the eBOSS, with Baras town in Rizal province being the latest.

Perez commended the Baras LGU, which, he said, despite being a fourth-class municipality, was able to digitize and automate its processes.

He shared that the ARTA targets about 200 LGUs to fully comply with the eBOSS system this year.

Meanwhile, the agency named the fully complied LGUs with the fastest processing time in terms of business permit applications.

Based on ARTA’s monitoring and evaluation, the LGU with the fastest processing of business permit applications is Navotas City at 20 minutes; followed by Valenzuela, Marikina, and Mandaluyong at 30 minutes; Quezon City at 50 minutes; Manila, Parañaque, and Malabon at one hour; Pasay at 1.5 hours; Batangas City at two hours; and Balanga City at 2.5 hours.

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