Metro Manila (CNN Philippines) — Arriz Herrera runs a manufacturing company and he sees to it that he renews almost all government permits every year.
And he complains about the tedious processes he has to go through doing this.
Unfortunately, his experience is the opposite of findings in the government’s “ease of doing business” campaign.
According to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), while it took 16 steps to register a business in 29 days in 2015, the process was reduced to six steps in 8 days in 2016.
With full automation, the goal is to further reduce this to three steps in three days by 2017.
During the 4th Ease of Doing Business Summit (EODB) on Tuesday, the National Competitiveness Council and all interested groups presented recent reforms in business registration, including taxation.
There’s the so called Integrated Business Registration System Performance where company transactions are completed in one business day.
They said they had been dealing with inefficiencies brought about by red tape and corruption — slowly but surely.
Trade Secretary Adrian Cristobal said the goal was to improve the country’s ranking in the global EODB survey.
The country’s rank slipped to 103rd place in 2015 from 97th in 2014.
For the Bureau of Customs, Commissioner Bert Lina said more reforms were coming.
Arriz is hoping the promised reforms would help him avoid incurring further losses in sales and opportunities.
