The Manila Times

QC opens one-stopshop for business

- JING VILLAMENTE

QUEZON City’s Business One Stop Shop and the One Stop Shop for Constructi­on are now fully open for business.

Mayor Herbert Bautista over the weekend led the formal launch of the two one-stop-shops that were designed to make business startups and permits issuances simpler and easier.

Bautista showed to Trade and Industry Secretary Ramon Lopez, Interior Undersecre­tary Austere Panadero and National Competitiv­eness Council co-chairman Guillermo Luz to the business registrati­on process, which was cut down to two easy steps.

Quezon City’s Business One Stop houses the evaluators of the business for the locational clearance and the safety inspection.

a concierge assists an applicant who can comfortabl­y wait while his or her business permit applicatio­n is being processed.

Bautista also introduced to Lopez the city’s all-in-one center for constructi­on permits which provides a centralize­d center for receiving and evaluating applicatio­ns for building permits, oc and applicatio­ns for Meralco meters.

The one-stop-shop is located at building.

The city government has introduced other reforms to further ease the process of doing business, including enabling the use of electronic payments for local business taxes.

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