Hello Mhac!
, On 4/18/05 07:32 you wrote:
His ideas could be a good start. But unless there's change down to the personal level, we will have a hard time on this. I believe there are still *clean* government officials. But I am not sure whether they are
> in the majority or minority (I don't have the statistics with me right > now). But I do know that we Filipinos know where we really stand. >
For anyone interested, there is an NGO called FOCIG - Fellowship of Christians in Government which aims to do that. They have a website but the site has not been maintained and the index.html is not functioning properly.
Manny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
THE government is in such dire financial straits that every peso saved matters. There is one area where millions of pesos of government savings can still be made: software procurement.
And it will also help the rest of us if they don't force on us the use of proprietary products. For those required by the BIR to use their online system such as the EFPS (electronic filing and payment system), you will have to use internet explorer. Any other browser, and a window will pop-up saying you can only use so and so browser.
They made some programs for businesses to use which generates reports which are to be attached to the reports filed in the EFPS. You will need to have windows to run them as they are windows executables and db file.
Their latest setup is the eSales which uses text or e-mail to send your sales report. The e-mail uses a CSV file. In their instructions (http://www.bir.gov.ph/eSales.htm), users are told how to enter the data using excel instead of just editing it with any text editor.
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