Cebu City Hall or city hell?

[budmendz]

---

Yesterday was quite a big day in Cebu City Hall for taxpayers. The local government offered tax discounts for "early settlers" so I went there with my wife to avail the promo. I was so disheartened to see that after several years, the taxpayer's life is still like hell when paying taxes. Daghang nagbagolbol kay taas kaayo ang linya and they don't have a system of priority numbers like what you see in banks or flight reservations like PAL's. The method is still very crude and topsy turvy. Then moment you joined the queue, you have to maintain it kay basin ma sapawan ka. So if you are hungry or kaihi-on, you have to endure it until you finish your business.

And you have to go through several snake like "seat transfers" before you reach the teller's window. Morag ka sungka, sige ka balhin ug lingkoranan which makes you dizzy. I told one insider from the office nga kato cya morag dunay ranko but she didn't offer any solutions when I told her nga unta they should have improve an efficient system and one way is by offering "priority numbers" to the public. She just answered nga "mao bitaw unta pero wala mi mahimo" and she just walk away. Later I found out from a friend that they don't like to improve the system because the fixers are just coming in and out to them like their business partners.

Mao diay nga as I was observing the teller's window, duna lang mokalit ug duol sa window and hand in his documents. When I started complaining for people who hadn't even spend a minute on the long queue and was entertained by the teller, that's when everybody blurted out like hell.

Ug nila pa "why these people in city hall are making our lives like hell nga nagdala man unta ug kuarta para sa gobyerno?" I told them ... hapit na ang eleksyon ipahungaw unya ninyo inyong kasuko sa balota.

[godCode]

yeah samok kaayo... adto pud ko last friday... mura kinaraan gyud kaayo ug dating...

[INFRACTION]

murag na uncivilized ang government when it comes to these events e.g paying taxes, getting LTO driving licenses, voter's registration ...
murag wala ka agi og Management course ang mga empleyado sa goberno hahayz

[fingolfin]

... hahayz, and the government is giving them a salary increase. yeah right.

[budmendz]

murag na uncivilized ang government when it comes to these events e.g paying taxes, getting LTO driving licenses, voter's registration ...
murag wala ka agi og Management course ang mga empleyado sa goberno hahayz

No matter how civilazation improves because of technology, business practices and by just plain attitude, City Hell has still a lot more to go. THe system itself if it refuses to improve with all the new tools ie, internet, gsm (cellphone) technology, new managment strategies - now available, still it is just like a dream. The administrators there just bragg how they have made achievements labi na gyud ug mag eleksyon na but all you get are all baloneys. Huh! Unya gyud kang Tomasa ka. Asa ra man unya ka...

[godCode]

^^^ i think dili gyud ganahan ang mga government employees na usbon ang 'system' diha kay wala na nya silay additional-income sa ilang pangurakot... and obviously tapulan gyud nang mga dako dako diha...

[ryantampus]

lucky me amo ra company mo bayad amo taxes. Pero ambi nko ang Cebu City naay gitawag ug Mayor's Management Team mo study sa mga offices sa city hall to implement changes.

[tolstoi]

BUDMENDZ..why don't you address your grievances directly to mayor TOM..post it here

http://www.cebucity.gov.ph/forum/index.php?board=15.0

[SamuraiArcher]

its time na gyud siguro to improve the system sa mga government agencies....pero sakit pud natongmga pinoy nga mu pay lang pud ta if hapit na ang deadline, mao nga mag abot tang tanan....if you have the money, we can pay our taxes in advance and can avail of the discounts.....mao ni akong gbuhat sa pagbayad ug taxes, if i already have the money by first weeek of december, mubayad dayon ko....kana nga time wala pa kaayo na tawo didto.....

[edgeknife]

its time na gyud siguro to improve the system sa mga government agencies....pero sakit pud natongmga pinoy nga mu pay lang pud ta if hapit na ang deadline, mao nga mag abot tang tanan....if you have the money, we can pay our taxes in advance and can avail of the discounts.....mao ni akong gbuhat sa pagbayad ug taxes, if i already have the money by first weeek of december, mubayad dayon ko....kana nga time wala pa kaayo na tawo didto.....

well, mao na sakit sa mga filipino. permi lang . permi lang magpa-deadline. when will some of our fellowmen learned their lessons? unya we blame cebu city hall nga bati ang service. natural daghan jud nang tawo basta deadline. if you have the money, bayad dayun. para wala hasul.