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Thursday, January 5, 2012

A Closure on the Great Book Blockade of 2009

Thanks to Rayvi Sunico for leading me to this link on DEPARTMENT ORDER NO. 57-2011
09 December 2011 at the Department of Finance website. It will greatly be of help to me as a school librarian ordering and acquiring imported books off shore. There's a downloadable PDF on the Florence Agreement which mentions that books bought by libraries are exempt from tax duties. But, of course.

As a government protocol, registration is the next step for libraries who wish to be exempt from tax duties.

My question is: Is it worth going through all the trouble of registration so that libraries can save from book purchases abroad?

2 comments:

  1. Yes it is worth the trouble of registration since you will be satisfied as a librarian seeing new books in your libraries. The number of those going to libraries will definitely increase as new materials are available to them. I just hope that there is no red-tape involve in that registration process.

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  2. epoxy lining - no doubt about the points you raised on the increase of readership in the library but, yes, the red tape can dampen the spirit.

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