From our family to yours, we wish you a Happy new year🎉😍❤️
This is our traditional family meal every new year, my own creation of sweet spagheti which my husband says it’s the best, store bought cake because I don’t want to bake, it is so time consuming, a bottle of champagne, I prefer the local one, fruit, ham, cheese with a little twist this year. The ham and cheese were arranged in a board and hotdog, chocolate, sausage, crackers and grapes were added.
And we do not forget to say a new year’s prayer before the meal, for me it is the higlight of our family tradition. I wish I can pass this tradition to my children and my children’s children in the future
In the Philippines a small business or micro are those with a capital of 3M pesos and below and employs not more than 9 people. Yes your small shop or store can supply products or services to any govt office provided you are registered in Philgeps
For your busines to be registered , if you are a sole proprietor you need to submit Mayor’s permit, DTI registration, BIR Tax clearance and Audited Financial Statement .For registration visit http://www.philgeps.gov.ph
My daughter recently needed three kinds of clearances for local employment purposes and we noticed it would be convenient to some people if they can find a blog online that would lay out the requirements for getting these clearances. There were some blogs about the clearances and some government sites have a list of requirements but some things like location, how long is the process and other stuff are not usually blogged.
She got three types of licenses: Barangay Clearance, Police Clearance, and Fiscal Clearance. Here are the details:
Barangay Clearance in Naga City
In getting a barangay clearance, know first in which barangay you belong to and locate your barangay hall. What you need:
Community Tax Certificate (Cedula) (usually they require an ID wih your address. If you’re from another place and you just moved in to another, of course you will not have an ID with your new address yet. What they will require from you is your rental contract or billing statement. You have to pay for your cedula and the amount of tax depends on your income.)
Barangay Clearance Fee
Sample of Cedula (grabbed from net)
Actual Payment: 5 (for student, retired or unemployed) plus 30 (barangay clearance fee)
Cost: Minimum of 35 pesos
Time Budget: Around 15 minutes
Police Clearance in Naga City
In Naga City, police clearances are processed in the police station near Barlin St. Before going there for your police clearance, you need to pay for the clearance first in the city treasurer. You can either pay at the 2nd floor of Naga City People’s Mall (market) or at the Naga City Hall. What you need to bring at the police station:
Actual Requirements Poster at the Police Station
The additional 80 pesos processing fee is to be paid in the police station. They will give you a receipt similar to the one below which will double as your claim stub because the clearance will be released after 2 hours. While waiting, you can process other requirements you might need for your local employment.
Don’t lose this!
Cost: 130 pesos
Time budget: Around 15 minutes
Fiscal Clearance in Naga City
The fiscal clearance is processed at the prosecutor’s office which is inside the Hall of Justice in the City Hall compound. You may go to the Hall of Justice building (the left one) and ask the guard on duty where the prosecutor’s office is. What you need to bring before going:
Documentary Stamp (Get this at the BIR office, just a few walks away from the City Hall. Buy 1 doc stamp. It costs 15 pesos.)
Barangay Clearance
Clearance Fee (this is paid in the prosecutor’s office)
Cost: 50 pesos
Time budget: Around 20 minutes
Tips:
Wear comfortable clothes when you’re planning to have your local employment requirements processed.
Be an early bird. Time budgets listed in this blog is only applicable if the lines are short. Best time to go is on mornings and the worst time is 11:30 am. People are usually grumpy at these hour since they are already hungry.
Be courteous/polite at all times. Getting mad and involving yourself in some things will only inconvenience you and all the other people in line.
Bring a bottled water and check your requirements before going.
Just recently, my daughter made me a logo for my WP account which is now my header picture. It’s a level up, and it’s something! The site now looks clean and the logo gives a preview of what to expect when you browse inside.
Before I was reluctant of having The Fat Feet as my blog title because it gives me an image of a disease, or a sickness, or something else bad about your health but my daughter (yes also her) insisted that I name it this way because one: I’m fat, and two: it’s mostly about travelling and my itchy feet. So I gave in and this is it!
By the way, she also sometimes serves as my editor and proofreader. I’m saying this so you can blame her when you see something wrong inside. *wink* I’m actually wondering whether I have to give her a space here and make her contribute as well because she’s got itchier feet than me.
After working in a corporate world for more than 2 decades, now is the time to give myself a break from the office for a few days!
I decided my first destination to be Hong Kong. We joined a travel club called Dream Trips which gave us own booking engine for domestic and international travels. What’s more amazing with it is that we get to travel luxuriously with a budget of “budget trips.” We get to check in at 4 or 5 star hotels for a very minimal budget.
Our travel date was from February 28 to March 4, 2016. Here are snippets from our trip:
Day 1
We arrived at the airport and had a hotel transfer at 12:00 nn. It was very convenient that the “you should be here” sign (also the brand slogan) was very visible, so we did not spend a lot of time looking for a representative to meet us.
Checking in our room, a pile of welcome gifts were on the bed for the travel club members. There were wine, journal sets, gadget pouches, and a lot of other stuff. We haven’t started our trip yet but we already know how thoughtful the club is.
We had a welcome dinner at 7 pm to meet other travel club members. There were games and a little program. There was even a cake for those who celebrate birthdays on February.
For Platinum members like us, we get to have a half day tour on our 3rd day at The Peak and Madame Tussauds. This comes with a free dimsum lunch at the Jumbo floating restaurant.
That ends ou Hongkong trip! We only spent 109 USD or Php 5, 000 approximately for everything excluding our airfare. That includes our 3 night stay at a 4 star hotel with free full meals. Thank you Dream Trips!
New Philippine Passport. Photo grabbed from the net.
Applying for renewal of Philippine passport is easy. I just filled up the form, presented my old passport together with a valid ID and it only took 30 minutes to process. It was the second Saturday of December so I thought there would be a long line in the DFA Legazpi in Albay but we were very lucky that there were less than 10 of us .
After paying, I waited for 15 days and the passport was delivered directly to my residence just in time for my booking of my 1st Asian travel. For those who would like to know the specific requirements in applying for a new passport or renewal, please visit http://www.dfa.gov.ph
I think I need to update this post. DFA Legazpi is no longer accepting walk in clients. The procedure is like in other DFA offices where the applicant need to have an appointment
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