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                                                                                                Status of
Ref.                Observation                          Recommendations                 Implementation / Results
                                                                                              of Validation
page     Economic Processing Zone, Inc.             the city government, or to its        collected by the City
 38      (BACONSEPZ), which is not                  President, in order that it can          under OR No.
         included in the list of special            recover its investment of            1557720 last January
         economic zones recognized by the           ₱930,000.00.                                14, 2025.
         Philippine     Economic       Zone
         Authority (PEZA) as of October 31,
         2016, thus its existence is deemed
         questionable.

         [Part III, AAR 2021: On 4/4/2017,
         stock certificates of BACONSEPZ
         owned by the Local Government of
         Bais were properly returned for
         recovery of investments.

         On 7/13/2018, Atty. Ignacio L
         Vicente/BACONSEPZ paid to the
         City Treasurer the amount of
         ₱600,000.00 with Official Receipt
         (OR) No. 0969639.]

         The heirs of Atty. Ignacio
         Vicente/BACONSEPZ have already
         returned the remaining balance of
         ₱330,000.00 as per OR No. 1557720
         last January 14, 2025.
2016     35)      Payment        of     annual 80) The      City       Mayor,      as         Implemented
AAR,     membership dues to the League of          representative of the City of Bais,    The City Mayor has
 AO      Cities of the Philippines (LCP) for       request the treasurer of the LCP        already put across
No. 9,   CY 2016 amounting to ₱150,000.00          to acknowledge its payments (as        his sentiments to the
page     was acknowledged by a printed             well as collections from other         LCP that AF No. 51
 48      receipt of the organization instead of    member-cities) with government          must be used and
         an O.R. of the Republic of the            AF No. 51 in order that the funds         adopted by the
         Philippines as required under             may be subjected to government               League.
         Sections 42 and 44, Chapter 7, Title      accounting and auditing rules and
         I(B), Book V of the Administrative        regulations.                           A printed copy of the
         Code of 1987 thus eliminating                                                     issued receipt was
         accounting thereof as government                                                   submitted with an
         funds and audit by the Commission                                                explanation why they
         on Audit.                                                                        cannot issue AF No.
                                                                                           51. Also submitted
         (Part III, AAR 2021: Received an                                                     was the LCP’s
         electronic copy of AF No. 51 sent                                                  authority to print.
         through email last March 10, 2021.
         Hardcopy still not received by the
         LGU.)
2014     36) As a result of erroneous prior 81) Management require the TF                   Unimplemented
AAR,     years’ practice of remitting amounts   Bookkeeper      to     trace the           No action taken by
 AO      due to the GSIS, HDMF and              transactions       and      effect           management.
No. 2,   PhilHealth from the TF even if the     corrections in the trust liability
page     amounts withheld in the GF and SEF     accounts Due to GSIS, HDMF
 24      have not yet been transferred          and PhilHealth.
         thereto, negative balances totaling



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