ARTA, nag-level up sa business permitting process sa Pinas

NAGING  matagumpay ang  Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) na i-streamline ang ilan sa permitting process  upang masiguro na maging magaan ang transaksyon o “doing business” sa Pilipinas.

Sinabi ni  Pangulong Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. sa  US businesses na ang kanyang administrasyon ay “working hard”  para i-minimize ang red tape at  i-digitalize ang bureaucratic processes.

“They have done a very good job. They have reduced some of the permitting procedures from — for different industries from several months to just a few days,” ang pahayag ni Pangulong Marcos sa fireside chat sa  American business executives sa Blair House sa Washington.

“I really am confident that the authority, if it’s continued — if it can continue its work and if it is — it is well supported by legislation, by the bureaucratic procedures, we can cut down many of those unnecessary regulatory documentary requirements,” ayon kay Pangulong Marcos.

Sa kabilang dako, nagpahayag naman ng pagkasigasig ang US investors sa maraming pagbabago na inilagay sa Anti-Red Tape Law subalit maingat kung paano ito makatutulong na pabilisin ang foreign direct investment (FDI) at dalhin ang negosyo sa Pilipinas.

“The challenge is how to compete with other countries and how to shorten the business permitting process, which sometimes takes 36 months to secure in the Philippines,” ayon kay Pangulong Marcos.

“In other countries, documents are ready for signature after 24 hours,” diing pahayag ng Pangulo.

Ang iba pang lugar na tinatrabaho ng administrasyon ay ang “digitalizing government processes and transactions.”

“We always — that’s why digitalization has become such an important part of our effort because with digitalization, you remove as much of the discretion that we will have — that people have in actually processing these applications or these documents and hopefully the end result is that — we will be doing most of our business in government purely online, without speaking to a human being,” ayon sa Pangulo.

Samantala, base sa pag-aaral, ang 95% ng trabaho ngayon ay ginagawa na sa “online”, sinabi ng Pangulo na  “although digitalizing the bureaucracy may be an intimidating task the government must carry it out.”

“Simple things like applying for a driver’s license and getting a copy of birth certificate could be done online,” ayon sa Pangulo. (Daris Jose)