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Ref.            Audit Observations                  Audit Recommendations                    Status of Implementation
        thus, gender responsiveness of the
        programs and activities was not
        assured.

        (Reiterated under Finding No. 14, Part
        II of this Report.)

AAR    37.    The balance of accounts Real We recommended that:
2018    Property Tax (RPT) Receivable and 66. The Municipal Accountant and                          Unimplemented
p.34    Special Education Tax (SET)            Municipal Treasurer reconcile the       Management had been unable to fully
        Receivable as of December 31, 2018     difference between the RPT and          utilize the iTax system to generate the
        per records of the Municipal           SET         balances         totaling   correct balances since no dedicated
        Accountant’s Office (MAO) and          ₱4,263,515.17 and, henceforth,          personnel trained to operate the system.
        Municipal Treasurer’s Office (MTO)     conduct, together with the
        showed       a      difference      of Municipal Assessor, a periodic
        ₱4,263,515.17 because the accounts     reconciliation of the balances of
        were not established based on the      Basic and Special Education Tax
        Real     Property    Tax     Account   dues and RPT Receivable and SET
        Register/Taxpayer’s index card and     Receivable accounts to avoid
        no     subsidiary    ledgers     were  accumulation of unreconciled
        maintained by the MAO, contrary to     items;
        Section 20 of the Manual on the New
        Government Accounting System 67. The Municipal Assessor prepare                           Unimplemented
        (NGAS), Volume I, and Section 10,      and submit to the Municipal             The assessment roll had been
        Volume II of the same Manual, thus,    Treasurer an assessment roll            submitted but not within the required
        RPT Receivable/SET Receivable and      containing a list of all persons        period.
        Deferred RPT Income/Deferred SET       whose real properties have been
        Income accounts might not have         newly assessed or reassessed and
        been fairly presented in the financial the values of such properties, on or
        statements.                            before the thirty-first (31st) day of

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