Gridlocks at Wakanda treasurer's office

Wakanda Hall requires payers of real property taxes to pass through the proverbial eye of the needle at its treasury.

Many eyes of the needle, actually.
I've been through that recently but won't narrate that entertaining episode in the first person.

Actually, the apparatchiks of Wakanda are the ones deserving of the needle, not the eye of it but its very tip that needs to be thrust to their butts repeatedly. But that's another story.

First eye of needle: falling in line.It takes at least an hour for seniors. The city is magnanimous enough to offer seats to them rather than put them in a tourously long line that defies Covid19.

Second eye of needle: assessment. You submit the Tax declaration and location of property. It's about 20-30 minutes for your name to be called; you're handed the assessment of your tax obligation with the instruction to go to a window to pay garbage fee that doesn't assure you diligent waste collection anyway. Caveat: you'll be glued to your section unless you get a priority number from another window.

Third eye of needle: as per instruction from the teller, go back again to the assessment section to submit the receipt for garbage payment. Wait for about 20-30 minutes for your name to be announced.

Your receipt is returned with another priority number to the window to pay your real property tax. 

That is the final window tobtransact, the cashier that calls the pastor's by their priority numbers. 

Meanwhile, at the Kapitolyo kang Yrong-Yrong, taxpayers of real properties breeze through the process in less than 30 minutes. The bureaucratic gridlocks Wakanda erected to torment taxpayers with are unheard off at the Kapitolyo.

You just present the tax declaration or past receipts in hard or electronic copy, you get your tax dues with the click of the mouse for any real property thoughout Yrong-Yrong Province even to as far as Punta Buri. You don't have to scurry from one section to the next just to secure one priority number after another.

Sharif Aguak, datu of Wakanda, has earned admiration from the public for his handling of the Covid-19 epidemic.

He can simplify procedure in paying real property taxes in Wakanda and reduce the torment taxpayers pass through in unnecessary bureaucratic gridlocks. He can start by issuing only one priority number per taxpayer and combining payments of garbage fees and the real property tax, in one single step and in one window or cashier.

Sharif Aguak deserves all support he could get in leading his fiefdom in fighting Covid19, not the tip of the needle.