The Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) are calling on target groups to integrate their services to the central business portal (CBP) to facilitate processing of government documents
This as one more NGA, the Cooperative Development Authority and 20 other secondary agencies that issue licenses to operate are yet to go on board the CBP.In a statement, ARTA said six primary agencies namely DTI, Securities and Exchange Commission, Bureau of Internal Revenue, Social Security System, Philippine Health Insurance Corp. and Home Development Mutual Fund, and one secondary agency, the Food and Drug Administration-Center for Drugs and at least 17 local government units (LGUs) are now integrated with the CBP.
ARTA said the additional LGUs are still subject of discussions.
The LGUs that have linked up with CBP are Quezon City; Ilagan City, Isabela; Baler, Aurora; Dipaculao, Aurora; Limay, Bataan; Macabebe, Pampanga; Paete, Laguna; Santa Cruz, Marinduque; Labo, Camarines Norte; Santa Barbara, Iloilo; Mandaue City, Cebu; Palo, Leyte; Molave, Zamboanga del Sur; Dumingag, Zamboanga del Sur; Catarman, Camiguin; Kabacan, North Cotabato; and, Manay, Davao Oriental.
Under the CBP, forms that applicants will need to accomplish are pre-filled with data that they have submitted before. Around 267 LGUs are also hyperlinked to the CBP.
At least 287 corporations have registered at the CBP for the year.
Among the additional features available in the CBP is the end-to-end registration for all types of corporations and registration for sole proprietorship.
With the CBP, the number of days for registering businesses was reduced from 33 days and 13 steps to only seven days with only one step. ARTA is aiming to further reduce this period to a single day by next year.
