Online business and citizen registry systems will be operational before the end of the year as part of President Rodrigo Duterte's promise to cut red tape and further ease doing business in the country, the Department of Finance said. The department has partnered with the newly formed Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) to create automated registries that would allow government agencies to share data and other pertinent information needed when people apply for permits and licences. "We are building these systems because we want to unburden our citizens from submitting documentary requirements that we in the government already have in our records," said Finance Undersecretary Gil Beltran. "We want ... to make one submission of documents to be good for all agencies.