Citing a report of the city accounting department, Binay said it is "expected" that the exclusion of the 10 "embo" barangays resulted in bigger allocations for the remaining 23 barangays from the city's basic real property tax collections, which recorded an increase of 17 percent, and the National Tax Allotment (NTA).
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