{"id":158542,"date":"2018-04-02T01:53:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T05:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=158542"},"modified":"2018-04-02T01:53:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T05:53:26","slug":"peza-ready-for-federalism-plaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/04\/02\/peza-ready-for-federalism-plaza\/","title":{"rendered":"PEZA ready for federalism: Plaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_158543\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158543\" style=\"width: 349px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/349px-Philippine_Economic_Zone_Authority_PEZA.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-158543\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/349px-Philippine_Economic_Zone_Authority_PEZA.svg_.png\" alt=\"PEZA logo (Photo By Philippine Economic Zone Authority - http:\/\/www.peza.gov.ph\/, Public Domain)\" width=\"349\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/349px-Philippine_Economic_Zone_Authority_PEZA.svg_.png 349w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/349px-Philippine_Economic_Zone_Authority_PEZA.svg_-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-158543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PEZA logo (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=60364427\">Photo By Philippine Economic Zone Authority &#8211; http:\/\/www.peza.gov.ph\/, Public Domain<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) supports the administration\u2019s push to shift to federalism, noting that the agency is ready for this form of government, its top official said.<\/p>\n<p>PEZA Director General Charito Plaza told reporters that the agency is actually decentralizing its operations, wherein services offered by PEZA can already be processed in its regional offices.<\/p>\n<p>Only the approval of applications is still being handled by the head office in Manila, according to Plaza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are planning to regionalize PEZA,\u201d she said, adding that the plan is in line with the goal of having an economic zone in every region.<\/p>\n<p>She said PEZA was able to present the agency\u2019s plan, particularly on revenue sharing, to the committee on constitutional amendments, if the government will shift to federalism.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, out of the 5-percent gross income earned (GIE) that the government is getting from PEZA-registered companies, the national government gets 3 percent while the local government unit (LGU) gets the remaining 2 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn federalism, it\u2019s the other way around,\u201d Plaza said.<\/p>\n<p>However, Plaza said that if the economic zone is a public land, the national government will still be getting 3 percent of GIE.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPEZA\u2019s contribution is to create metropolitan area in every region, with ecozones serving as economic drivers. We are promoting new concept of economic zone,\u201d the PEZA chief said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith our ecozone program, we are contributing already in making LGUs empowered, enriched. It\u2019s a preparation for them for self-sufficiency and resource generating. We are doing it now by inviting LGUs to build economic zones,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) supports the administration\u2019s push to shift to federalism, noting that the agency is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":158543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[13369,9948,19486,13368],"class_list":["post-158542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-charito-plaza","tag-federalism","tag-peza","tag-philippine-economic-zone-authority","mauthors-kris-crismundo","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}