The BCDA has invoked the modern charter of Baguio to assert before the Supreme Court that the city government had no right to collect business taxes inside Camp John Hay, the city council said on Monday.
The high court’s Second Division ruled in a Feb. 22 decision that businesses in Camp John Hay not registered with the Philippine Economic Zone Authority are obliged to secure business licenses from and pay taxes to the city government, ending a 14-year jurisdiction conflict between Baguio and the BCDA.
RA 11689 states that “the Camp John Hay Reservation covering 6,254,105 square meters subject to final survey, which was transferred to the BCDA by virtue of Republic Act No. 7227 … is not part of the Baguio Townsite Reservation.” As a townsite, all Baguio lands that have not been excluded by law, by proclamations or by sale are alienable. Since the early 1900s, people intending to purchase a lot have had to go through a townsite sales application process.
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