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Online Sales Of Prepaid Credits At I-Cafés
13 Jul2010
Online sales of prepaid credits or the more commonly known “online loading” is one business model that many existing i-cafés are already offering not only to their customers but also to the general public. As the name implies, the sales transaction is done online or over an Internet connection which all i-cafés already have. Online loading is one business model that an i-cafe owner can have to augment his computer rental business. The percentage income on the online sales transactions can go as high as twelve (12%) percent depending on the distributor’s price and the product sold.
The biggest advantage of online loading business over the prepaid cards is having many products in a virtual inventory. An i-café owner who Read the rest of this entry »
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- Tags: online loading, prepaid credits
The Pornographic Site Filters For I-Cafés
10 Jul2010
Filtering the Internet for adult pornographic (porno) contents is not an issue among majority of i-café owners. Almost everyone agrees that porno sites must be filtered to prevent both young and old customers from viewing them. Many local government units have ordinances requiring i-café owners to install filters that will block those unwanted sites aside from mandating the to have posters around the shop announcing the prohibition. The recently approved implementing rules and regulations of The Anti-Child Pornography Act of 2009 has the same prohibition among its many provisions. From a moral standpoint and whether the law is getting implemented or not in his locality, an i-café owner must install filtering software to avoid websites with adult content from getting viewed by his customers. Read the rest of this entry »
In our article about the local tax of an i-café, the use of presumptive income level (PIL) as the basis for computing the local tax of a business was mentioned. We defined PIL as the estimated figure or an intelligent guess of how much revenue does a certain kind of business make in a year. An estimated income figure is used by a local government unit (LGU) especially when actual receipts are not issued in some sales transactions of the establishment. This practice is usually applied by LGUs on businesses in public markets, beauty parlors, etc. including i-cafés.
The levy of local tax use of presumptive income level Read the rest of this entry »
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