Quezon City launched BOSS
To encourage more new businesses to register this year, the Quezon City government launched last Friday the Business One-Stop Shop or BOSS, which aims of simplifying the process of securing business permit.
“The simplified procedures in licensing will drive individuals to invest or a business,” said Pacifico F. Maghacot, Jr., officer-in-charge for the Business Permit and Licensing Office, during the launching of BOSS. He said, the city government is expecting to having approximately 12,000 new business registrants within the year because of the new system.
With BOSS, applicants of business permit may be able to obtain in nine minutes, or a maximum of nine days if the business requires an ocular inspection. A process that takes three weeks in the old system.
Maghacot said that in the old system, applicants need to go o the different offices – zoning official, building official, fire official, health and sanitation official, to register the business and go to the city treasure to pay for their permit. This usually takes a long time, he said.
But with BOSS, he said applicants only need to fill up a business application form, pay the corresponding fees at the city treasurer, and proceed to the Department of Trade and Industry’s Philippine Business Registry, simplifying the procedure. “All the steps are located in one office so the system is faster,” Maghacot added.
For other documentary requirements that my take time to produce, like location clearance, sanitary permit, and fire and safety inspection certification may be submitted after three months. Meanwhile, the business can start operating sans these documents.
BOSS was set up with the technical support provided by the International Finance Corp. (IFC), the financing arm for private sector of World Bank. Aside from Quezon City, IFC is also partnering with the cities of Marikina, Manila and Mandaluyong for the same project.
Rashad Kaldany, IFC vice president for Asia, Eastern Europe, Middle East and North Africa said during the launch that BOSS “will help invigorate the private sector and support sustainable economic growth.”
August 21, 2010
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