Collected VND 330 billion from post clearance audit

Operational activity at Dien Nam-Dien Ngoc Industrial ParkCustoms Branch (Quang Nam) Photo: M.Hung

According to the General Department of Vietnam Customs, in the first quarter of 2017, the sector has implemented 1,754 audits of the Post Clearance Audit and collected arrears VND 409.1 billion (increased by 20.4% in the same period in 2016), and actually collected VND 330.2 billion into the budget (including debt collection from previous years), equal to 99.2% over the same period in 2016, reaching 12% of the target 2017 is VND 2,000 billion.

In order to achieve the task of revenue collection and contribute to improve management efficiency and facilitate the business community, the General Department of Vietnam Customs directed the Post Clearance Audit Department and local Customs Departments and Post Clearance Audit Branches to inspect at the office of the Customs declarants, and focus on gathering information, analyzing the risk, inspecting and assessing the law compliance of key enterprises and big corporations.

On the other hand, the Post Clearance Audit forces continue to focus on areas, commodities and commodity groups with high risks, in which focusing on the assessment of post-clearance audit of enterprises importing cars, alcohol, beer and high tax rates commodities and the enterprises have not been implemented the post clearance audit.

The General Department of Vietnam Customs requests the Post Clearance Audit forces that the audit at the declarants’ offices must increase from 10% to 15% compared to 2016, toward the target of 2020 that 5% import and export enterprises will be implemented the post clearance audit each year.

For Post clearance audit at Customs Branches, the General Department of Vietnam Customs directed the units to focus on assessing information and analyzing risks of the post clearance audit in a timely fashion at Customs offices for Green channel shipments with high-risk signs and shipments with suspicious signs on HS codes, price and C/O. In particular, promoting the post clearance audit on value and ensuring not to miss the shipments are suspected on low-priced.