Today's Issue
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Editor's Take: Helping the SME Community
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SME News: Bank tells SMEs to use online tools
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SME Toolkit Road Show Update:
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Los Baños , Laguna – The City of Hot Spring
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The Grand SME Toolkit Road Show
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Tax Calendar
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Events:Events: Expanding Business Through Export (Basics of Exporting) - (October 8 to 12),Corporate Culture: Filipino Values in the Workplace (October 9),Basic MS Powerpoint for Beginners (October 10)Web Graphic Design and Production Using Adobe Photoshop (October 11 to 12),"Masigasig" The Negosyo Tour 2007 (October 13 to 14) more events
SME News
Bank tells SMEs to use online tools
A THRIFT bank is confident it will gain a bigger foothold in the small and medium enterprise sector by offering e-business solutions.
This, despite efforts of some international software giants now offering business solution packages to SMEs.
“They have the resources but we have the expertise about SMEs … knowing how they behave and their requirements,” said Planters Development Bank SME Solutions Inc. president Adonis Yap.
Planters Development Bank voiced its commitment to assist the country’s growing SME sector by encouraging them to capitalize. . .
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Power Quote for SMEs
“Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a tem work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. - Vince Lombardi ”
Tax Calendar
October 10 Last day of
-e-Filing/Filing & e-Payment/Remittance for 1600 - Withholding VAT/PT for September 2007
-Filing & Paymeny/Remittance for 1601C, 1601E, 1601F, & 1602 - Withholding return on compensation, EWT & FWt for September 2007 (non-EFPS taxpayers); 1603 - FBT for CQ ended September 207; 1606 - Withholding on transfer of real property other than capital assets for September 2007
October 11 Last day of
-e-Filing for 1601C, 1601E, 1601F, & 1602 - Whithholding return on compensation, EWT & FWT for September 2007 (Group E)
October 12Last day of
- e-Filing for 1601C, 1601E, 1601F, & 1602- Withholding return on compensation, EWT & FWT fro September 2007 (Group D)
Source: Punongbayan & Araullo
Editor's Take
Helping the SME Community
If we are going to think about the fact, that before these giant corporations became very successful and competitive in our economy, they surely started from the very beginning where a table, a chair, a filing cabinet, an old typewriter and probably a telex machine were the only equipment on their offices.
Year 1998, the country had witnessed several laws and amendments passed by the legislature to help improve and support all the Small and Medium Enterprises. Several corporations followed suit to give their support to these SME, and to the government.
Through the help of these corporations, and the laws laid out by the government, the rise of SMEs’ financial stability, and the uplifting of their operations from the backyard system to a corporate type was established.
Though still on its infancy, SMEs are already getting into the market globally through the use of e-commerce. They are now becoming one of the guys, so to speak, who can break through the foreign market.
Our team, the SME.com.ph and Plantersbank are one of the forefronts in assisting these SMEs. We are now actively involved in going to far flung provinces to bring to these small and medium enterprises the techniques and technologies to keep up with globalization by way of offering our SME Toolkit. We had so far covered eight provinces doing Road Show which to date have been quite successful.
If more corporations will do the same thing, and the government will give its full support, we will have an explosion of entrepreneurs in our midst, and a community of SMEs doing global marketing and bringing to the world our very own Filipino products and ingenuity.
What's your take on this? We want to hear from you! Click here and participate in the discussion.
Russelle S. Trinidad
SME BizLink Editor
SME Toolkit Road Show Update
Los Baños , Laguna – The City of Hot Spring
The SME.com.ph team went to Los Baños, Laguna last Thursday, October 4, 2007, and conducted a Road Show, to introduce the use of SME Toolkit and other e-business resources for the businesses in the area.
Los Baños is the first class urban municipality in the province of Laguna, famous for their therapeutic hot spring resorts. These resorts are the frequent haunts of people from the city every weekend who wish to unwind and considered as summer getaways by both the locals from other parts of the country, and tourists from abroad.
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The Grand SME Toolkit Road Show
Danggit Buy! Manggo Buy! Guitar buy! Donut buy! – How can any one forget about this commercial that was aired during the 90’s? Everybody knew that these are the special delicacies of Cebu, the best food and souvenirs that this Queen City of the South offers.
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