{"id":252266,"date":"2020-04-16T02:58:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T06:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=252266"},"modified":"2020-04-16T02:58:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T06:58:07","slug":"dti-clarifies-rents-are-deferred-not-waived-during-ecq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/04\/16\/dti-clarifies-rents-are-deferred-not-waived-during-ecq\/","title":{"rendered":"DTI clarifies rents are deferred, not waived during ECQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_177630\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-177630\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/LIM5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-177630\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/LIM5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/LIM5.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/LIM5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/LIM5-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/LIM5-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-177630\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Trade and Industry Secretary Ramon Lopez at the International Media Center (IMC) in New Delhi, India on January 25, 2018. YANCY LIM\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Ramon Lopez has clarified to tenants of both residential and commercial spaces that rental fees and charges are deferred but not waived, during the enhanced community quarantine.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">During the Laging Handa public briefing Wednesday, Lopez said residential and commercial rents falling due within the quarantine period shall be deferred for at least 30 days without incurring interests, penalties, fees, and other charges.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">For instance, the due date for the rent is on April 25, payment shall be deferred for the next 30 days.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cWe realized that not all landlords are big property owners. Some of them, renting out their property is their only means of living,\u201d he said in Filipino.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Lopez added the cumulative amount of rents due within the quarantine period shall be equally amortized in the next six months.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Last week, President Rodrigo Duterte advised landlords not to pressure their tenants in paying their rents as the country faces the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) crisis.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cWe all lose our income. I\u2019d like to ask the owners to suspend payment for residential rents. Do not ask for payment because tenants do not really have the money and are struggling now,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">But for mall operators, DTI\u2019s Memorandum Circular No. 20-04 has ordered mall owners to waive rental fees and other charges for stores that were closed during the community quarantine.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The national government started the community quarantine on March 15 in Metro Manila before placing the island of Luzon under enhanced community quarantine on March 17.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">President Duterte extended the enhanced community quarantine from the original April 12 to April 30 to contain the spread of the virus.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">On Tuesday, the government started the mass testing for Covid-19.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Ramon Lopez has clarified to tenants of both residential and commercial spaces &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":177630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","mauthors-kris-crismundo","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252266","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252267,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252266\/revisions\/252267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}