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BY MAE SINGUAY
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BACOLOD City – The City Assessor’s Office asked the Central Negros Electric Cooperative (Ceneco) to inventory all its electrical poles here.
“This will be validated by the Appraisal Division … for declaration and inclusion in the assessment toll,” City Assessor Maphilindo Polvora wrote Ceneco general manager Sulpicio Lagarde Jr. “Notice of assessment will be sent to Ceneco at the soonest possible time.”
Polvora said their request was in light of a Supreme Court decision mandating Manila Electric Company (Meralco) to pay the local government of Lucena City, Quezon province real property taxes.
Meralco should pay taxes for its transformers, electric posts, transmission lines, insulators, and electric meters, the high court ruled.
Ceneco properties subject to taxation include its main office building on Mabini Street and substations on Gonzaga Street and barangays Alijis and Estefania, among other substations, Land Tax Division records show.
The cooperative owes the city P185,080.84 in taxes a year for such properties, Polvora said, citing a City Treasurer’s Office assessment.
But Polvora said he has yet to ask the city treasurer if Ceneco had started paying for the taxes on the said properties.
As of this writing the city assessor cannot project the collectible tax amount from the poles alone./PN
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