An Act to Amend Section 2493 of the Administrative Code

March 10, 1922

ACT NO. 3048

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION TWENTY-FOUR HUNDRED AND NINETY-THREE OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE, PROVIDING FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE PERIOD OF THE COLLECTION OF THE TAX ON REAL ESTATE IN THE CITY OF MANILA, THE EXTENSION OF THE TIME FOR THE PAYMENT, REMISSION, AND REDUCTION OF SAID TAX, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

SECTION 1. Section twenty-four hundred and ninety-three of the Administrative Code is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 2493. Animal tax and penalties — Extension, remission of the payment of the tax. — An annual tax of one and one-half per centum on the assessed value of all real estate in the city subject to taxation as hereinbefore provided is hereby levied. All taxes shall be due and payable on or before the thirtieth day of June of each year, and if any taxpayer shall fail to pay the taxes assessed against him on or before the thirtieth day of June of the year for which such taxes are due, he shall be delinquent in such payment and shall be subject, as a penalty for such delinquency, to an additional tax of twenty per centum of the amount of the original tax if both the original and the additional tax be paid during the first six months of such delinquency, and if not so paid to an additional tax of twenty-five per centum of the amount of the original tax; the additional tax to be collected at the same time and in the same manner as the original tax.

"At the option of the taxpayer, the tax due for any year may be paid in two installments, the first of such installments to consist of one per centum of the assessed valuation of the property and the second to consist of the remainder of the tax for the year. In such cases the first installment must be paid on or before the thirtieth day of June of the year for which the tax is due, and the second may be paid at any time prior to the first day of January of the following year, but if the first installment of the tax for any year is not paid on or before the thirtieth day of June of such year, then the whole of that year's tax shall be delinquent and the penalty due thereon as hereinbefore provided. If any taxpayer, having paid the first installment of his tax for any year, shall fail to pay the second installment thereof before the first day of January of the following year, the penalty collected shall be twenty per centum of the amount of such second installment during the first six months of said following year, and thereafter twenty-five per centum of such amount.

"The penalties thus imposed shall be accounted for by the city treasurer in the same manner as the tax. In the event that such tax and penalty shall remain unpaid for fifteen days after the tax becomes delinquent, the city treasurer shall proceed to make collection thereof in the manner hereinafter prescribed.

"The municipal board may extend the time for the collection of the tax on real estate in the city of Manila for a period not to exceed three months. It may also remit all or part of the tax on real estate or the penalties thereon during the ensuing year in case there are good and sufficient reasons for it. The resolution in any such case shall not take effect until it has been approved by the Governor-General.

"The Governor-General may, in his discretion, extend the time for the collection of the tax on real estate in Manila until a date within the same calendar year and may also remit or reduce the tax on real estate during any year if he deems this to be in the public interest."

SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, March 10, 1922.