The municipality of Dauis has landed in the elite Top 10 list of top tax collectors in real property taxes, a feat consistently posted all through the years, but the first in the municipal administration of Mayor Jimmy Jimenez since he assumed the mayoralty saddle in 2010. Placing eight in a field of 47 municipalities, the municipality outranked the towns of Tubigon and Anda, which bagged the ninth and tenth slots, respectively. According to Letecia Honculada, municipal treasurer, the town posted 98.25% for the 2010 Real Property Tax Achievement for Collection Efficiency. The exclusive list of topnotchers was headed by the municipality of Clarin which polled an efficiency rating of 128%. The list was followed by Jagna with 112% then Antequera, Balilihan, Corella, Panglao, and Candijay in that order. In the case of Dauis, Mayor Jimenez credited the leap in tax collection efficiency to its no-nonsense collection system. He said the Municipal Treasurer’s Office under his direction has devised an augmentation mechanism to support a more effective collection of real property taxes.

Mayor Jimenez said with the mechanism now in place he expects to maintain if not improve its tax collection efforts in the years ahead. One example why the strategy was effective was the collection of water bills through its waterworks system. The new strategy is for an MTO team to visit the barangays every end of the month to make the collections easier for consumers. This was in contrast in the previous years where water customers were left to their own discretion to go to the municipal hall for their monthly water billings. This led to the pile up of water bills resulting to chronic delinquency. For business establishments, according to Mayor Jimenez, they forced to settle their tax dues because no business permit is issued unless they are cleared of their real property delinquency. With this strict implementation of tax payments, tax delinquency on real property became a thing of the past.