Director of Customs: doubling the financial revenue after applying «tariff»

1/3/2016 0:00

 BAGHDAD - Tariq al-Araji - Saad al-Sammak
The General Customs Authority doubled revenue from the border outlets after the application of the tariff law.
As revealed vowed to enforce the law of the Kurdistan region in the coming period, the Commission published detachments for obtaining tariff of shipments that are not reimbursed at border crossing points coming from the region and within it.




Customs revenue doubled

The Director General of the Commission of the Ministry of Finance, Kazim Ali in elaborately statement «morning», said the decision to apply the tariff does not return it, being the head part and an important economic reform plan, saying that revenues began to multiply dramatically after application Alaqrar.oohar that his department will tighten supervision and subsequent control points five guestrooms, articulating the existence of intent to increase not on potential, especially that it has become part of the security checkpoints, noting the existence of coordination between the customs and the ministries of defense, interior and command of operations in this regard.

The importance of tariff

He pointed over to the customs tariff is one of the instruments of fiscal policy being used as a tool to achieve two main; the first funding through the realization of revenues to the public treasury by collecting customs duties, while the second is to rationalize consumption, thereby reducing the units of foreign exchange leaked out Albulad.oocef Iraqi economy as the sole side being dependent on oil resources to provide foreign currency, however, that after the drop in oil prices and the high cost of extracting a barrel, it has become the entry of foreign currency minimal, what requires the State to ensure that its cash generating units and foreign.

Seize the Iraqi market

And on imported goods entering Iraq, the director of the Authority stressed that the Iraqi market now is sacked because of poor some foreign goods industry, and therefore the incoming products do not create income courses, because it is not capitalism products, but consumer go directly to consumption, indicating that led to this matter pressure on the stock of foreign currency at the central bank, pointing at the same time that the bank's policy, which he described Barashidh, led to the formation of a wonderful reserve currency, although he now began to decline because of falling oil prices and massive demand for Alasthlak.ofatt that the application of the tariff is one of the most important economic reform rings and a duty nationally must combine efforts to make it a success and achievement, returned to address this experiment, harms the national economy significantly, the fact that the current stage requires the application of tariff law because the country is facing a financial crisis unless concerted efforts to solve them.

A customs check points

Kadhim said that the tariff has become a tool to verify a set of objectives required by the national economy at the present time, since no longer the policy of the Ministry of Finance, but has become a national duty and everyone must work in tandem to make it a success, noting that the application of tariff or activated Abizaid decision of the Prime Minister's Office No. ( 413) for the year 2015 and the establishment of a customs check points in the center and the rest of the provinces.
Carter said all these provinces surrounded bracelet customs through the points are audited shipments moving on the trading of goods major emerging Central and calamity to roads, which noted that it is done through the installation of each shipment did not meet customs procedures and then towed to the customs area to complete the procedures and thus from the process, the tariff law has been applied across the country.
The application of the tariff in Kurdistan

Director General of the Commission disclosed the conduct of a meeting with Customs KRG officials who expressed their full readiness to implement the tariff law in the region outlets after training Mlakathm to the Harmonized System, which consists of 750 pages attached to the Customs Tariff No. Law (22) of 2010, as they translated to Kurdish language and asked for three meals a train, adding that the next few days will witness the dispatch of instructors to the region for this purpose.

Deploy detachments customs

He pointed out that the publication of customs detachments shares of two things, the first part of the body that all goods entering Iraq will be handled uniformly, while the second will help to know who deviates from inside the ports of employees, stressing that these detachments supervised by staff spent a long time in the administrative apparatus them experience and knowledge, along with the presence of more than a watchdog scrutinizes the work of the customs checkpoint, pointing out that the ambition is to reach the level of achievement of 100 percent.

Battle Against Corruption

He continued to say: The body runs uphill battle because the corruption endemic in many cases has become a social culture killed the old values ​​and replaced by new behaviors but will remain contingent on the personality of the individual employee, returned some acts of customs intervention through a broker or other, malicious behavior while mentioned belong to the parties are supposed to be the first supporters of the actions of the Commission.

The establishment of the customs warehouses

With regard to the establishment of the customs warehouses, he stressed that the current phase will not see it because of the financial crisis, they require large funds, which requires the Commission to deal in accordance with the available resources, noting that the evaluation process and the demarcation will continue within the ports, especially as the body invests Article (15) of the budget law for the current year and the judge joint operation with the private sector, either through a professional company or through Ofrad.mder General customs Authority also noted that his department has worked to prepare a map of the process of customs demarcation, which has been observed that the most serious episode which is the detection and evaluation, if It found a bug where, it will be the collection of customs and tax error, which requires monument balance gantry and Sunarat and linked with the former port for a comparison with the information on the goods.

Interoperability of outlets

Regarding the port driver, Ali revealed that his department is considering a way that interoperability being will be controlled within the port and outside, noting that the body awaiting instructions for the budget that allowed interoperability provided that holds a ministerial committee instructions for the preparation of this issue, hoping to expedite the issuing instructions to speed up the negotiation and contracting with companies, especially that there are bids from reputable companies, one of which operates 125 outlets in the world, as well as presentations from the local private sector.

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