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                   Audit Observations                         Audit Recommendations                     Status of Implementation


2015   62.      The OIC-Municipal Treasurer did 98. We recommended that the OIC-Municipal                     Unimplemented
AAR      not examine the books of accounts of         Treasurer require the taxpayers to submit an   Taxpayers had been required to
         business      taxpayers      nor    conduct  Income Statement/Statement of Receipts         submit proof of income or gross
         confirmation of the declared gross receipts  and Expenditures when applying for             receipts when applying for
         in their application for renewal of business renewal of business taxes to ascertain the     renewal of business permits to
         licenses with other government agencies      accuracy of the declared gross receipts        compute the tax due, but due to a
         contrary to Section 171 of RA No. 7160,      subject to tax. If the examination of the      lack of manpower, not all
         thus depriving the LGU from collecting       books could not be conducted immediately,      business       taxpayers      were
         additional income.                           the taxpayers may be required to submit        examined. Only bigger business
                                                      their preceding year’s financial statements    establishments were examined.
                                                      as temporary bases in computing the            The        smaller        business
                                                      business taxes.                                establishments, on the other
                                                                                                     hand, were only interviewed and
                                                                                                     required to fill out forms to show
                                                                                                     their Income /Receipts and
                                                                                                     Expenditures.

2015   63.     The Municipality of Bacong has no 99. We recommended that the Solid Waste               Unimplemented
AAR      approved       10-year      Solid   Waste   Material Board immediately revise the The amended SWM had already
         Management Plan for CYs 2015-2024           Solid Waste Management Plan following been submitted to the NSWMC
         contrary to Section 16 of RA No. 9003,      the Annotated Outlined prescribed by the for approval.
         thus providing no concrete guidelines for   National Solid Waste Management
         the effective implementation of programs    Commission and submit the same to the
         and activities on solid waste management.   National Solid Waste Commission for
                                                     approval pursuant to Section 16 of RA No.
                                                     9003 for an effective solid waste collection
                                                     and disposal.

AAR    64.     The Municipality did not conduct a 100. The Mayor to strictly require the Inventory      Unimplemented
2014     physical count of its movable property        Committee to conduct the physical count of Management had still been in the
         plant and equipment account as required in    properties and reconcile the same with process of drafting the Physical

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