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An LGU imposes local business tax on MegaTech Manufacturing, Inc. After a demand for payment, MegaTech fails to pay. The City Treasurer proceeds with the LGU remedy of distraint and levy by seizing MegaTech's delivery trucks and pallets stored at the company's yard, and later sells them at a public auction to satisfy the tax. MegaTech challenges the levy as invalid for lack of due process, claiming no prior notice was given before seizure. (a) Identify the controlling doctrine on remedies of local government units for collecting local taxes and name the remedy invoked in this case. (b) Distinguish the remedy of distraint and levy from a civil action for collection of local taxes. (c) Apply the doctrine to MegaTech's facts: is the levy valid or not, and why?