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Makati City mayor Abby Binay speaks to the audience during the Brigada Eskwela Kickoff inside the Comembo Elementary School in Makati on August 10, 2022. The Department of Education - Makati hosted the event to showcase their preparedness for the upcoming resumption of face-to-face classes. George Calvelo, ABS-CBN News

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23 Makati barangays gain from city's loss of Embo areas

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/20220810-makati-brigada-eskwela-GC-6.jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner">Makati City Mayor Abby Binay speaks to the audience during the Brigada Eskwela Kickoff inside the Comembo Elementary School in Makati on August 10, 2022. <em id="isPasted"><strong>George Calvelo, ABS-CBN News/File</strong></em></span></span></span></div><p>MANILA — All 23 remaining barangays of Makati City will receive this year an additional P10 million share each from the city’s basic real property tax collection (RPT), Makati Mayor Abby Binay said Sunday.</p><p>In a release, Binay said the additional share from the RPT collection follows the transfer of the 10 Embo barangays to Taguig City.</p><p>The Supreme Court has ruled that Taguig has jurisdiction over Pembo, Comembo, Cembo, South Cembo, West Rembo, East Rembo, Pitogo, Northside, Southside, and Rizal.</p><p>The budget department also confirmed an average increase of 6.20 percent in its final National Tax Allotment (NTA) allocations this year, Binay also said.</p><p>“As expected, the exclusion of the 10 EMBO barangays has resulted in bigger allocations for each of the 23 remaining barangays from the city’s basic RPT collections and the NTA,” Binay said.</p><p>She urged Makati’s village leaders to ensure the additional resources would be &quot;optimized&quot; for social services.</p><p>Citing the city&#x27;s accounting department, Binay said that over P10.085 million was added to the RPT share of each 23 villages.</p><p>This translates to a 17-percent average increase after the 10 Embo barangays were excluded from the 50-percent equal sharing, she noted.</p><p>In 2023, the 10 Embo barangays had contributed only 1 percent of the city’s total RPT collection, Binay said, noting that the remaining 99 percent came from the remaining 23 villages.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/01/05/24/p700-million-slashed-from-makatis-tax-allotment">P700 million slashed from Makati’s tax allotment; &#x27;embo&#x27; villages no longer in budget</a></div><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/spotlight/multimedia/video/08/25/23/bakit-pabor-sa-taguig-ang-desisyon-sa-mga-embo">Patrol ng Pilipino: Bakit kinatigan ng Korte Suprema ang Taguig sa isyu ng mga EMBO?</a></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5ZT7Lh9vaNo?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span></div>

<p>All 23 remaining barangays of Makati City will receive this year an additional P10 million share each from the city’s basic real property tax collection, Makati Mayor Abby Binay said.</p>

All 23 remaining barangays of Makati City will receive this year an additional P10 million share each from the city’s basic real property tax collection, Makati Mayor Abby Binay said.