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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Constitution Hills, Quezon City

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SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL No, 4280

Introduced by the Representative Salvador B. Belaro, Jr.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This bill seeks to exempt employers with less than ten (10) employees from
the compulsory registration required by government agencies such as but not
limited to the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), Social Security System (SSS),
and the Philhealth for a period of three (3) years from the commencement of their
business.

A stark reality in doing business in the Philippines is that the start-up
entrepreneur has to devote at least 3 days per month to attend and comply with the
requirements of various government agencies. Such time devoted to such
compliance is better devoted to making the business take off since it is at the start-
up stage that the entrepreneur needs all the help and support just to make ends.
meet.

Registration of businesses also becomes a source of corruption as it makes
the entrepreneur, via the disclosure of his address and whereabouts which are

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attendant to registration, susceptible to corruption and other shenanigans which
have been reported among many government personnel.

Hopefully, this Act will encourage more of our citizens to embark on
entrepreneurship with its attendant job generation so as to assist our government in
its goal of providing full employment for our countrymen,

Ge & he —
SALVADOR B. BELARO, JR.
Representative
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Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Constitution Hills, Quezon City

‘(NTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 4230

Introduced by the Representative Salvador B. Belaro, Jr.

AN ACT
EXEMPTING BUSINESSES WITH LESS THAN TEN (10) EMPLOYEES
FROM COMPULSORY REGISTRATION WITH GOVERNMENT
AGENCIES SUCH AS THE BIR, SSS, AND PHILHEALTH FOR A
PERIOD OF THREE (3) YEARS FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF
THEIR BUSINESSES

Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Philippines in
Congress assembled:

SECTION 1, Short Title. — This Act shall be known as the “Non-registration af

Small Businesses Act of 2016”.

SEC. 2. It is the policy of the state to aspire for the full employment of its citizens
and towards this end, it is a laudable goal to promote entrepreneurship with its
attendant consequence of job generation.

SEC. 3. All businesses with less than Ten (10) Employees shall be exempted from
the registration and its consequent payment of fees and other monetary assessment


SEC. 2. It is the policy of the state to aspire for the full employment of its citizens
and towards this end, it is a laudable goal to promote entrepreneurship with its
attendant consequence of job generation.

SEC. 3. All businesses with less than Ten (10) Employees shall be exempted from
the registration and its consequent payment of fees and other monetary assessment
of all forms and kinds required by such government agencies such as the Bureau of
Internal Revenue (BIR), Social Security System (SSS), and Philhealth for a period
of Three (3) years from the commencement of their business.

SEC. 4. To start a business with less than Ten (10) employees in this country, the
only requirement should be the listing of such business in the barangay where the
business will operate, The date of such listing shall be the reckoning point for the
determination of the three year exception stated in the preceding section.

SEC. 5. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in collaboration with the
Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) shall formulate the pertinent
rules and regulations necessary to implement this Act.

SEC. 6. All laws, orders, issuances rules and regulations or parts thereof
inconsistent with any provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, modified or
amended accordingly.

SEC. 7. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved