One stop office for paperwork

[NewsWhore]

Businessman Jose Antonio Martinez Rojas writes in the Sunday Hoy of the numerous tourism investment projects the DR is losing out because of the common practice of government officers asking for graft to process the paperwork. He backs the request by Gilberto de los Santos, of the Association of Real Estate Companies (AEI) and Arturo Villanueva, executive vice president of the National Hotel & Restaurant Association (Asonahores) for the establishment of a single stop office where all paperwork for a project can be processed at the same time. "If this happens we would attract an enormous flow of foreign investment that otherwise will go to competing countries as the investors flee from the obstacles," he writes. At a conference at the Asonahores Trade Show, Jose Natalio Redondo, president of the Puerto Plata Tourism Cluster also called for the single stop office for paperwork. He said this would also avoid companies using just one permit to start a project that could later be contested by other government departments. The single stop office is available at the Department of Customs and the Center for Exports & Investment (CEI-RD).

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