Customs sector determined to collect more than 293,000 billion VND

Customs inspection at off – airport cargo terminal in Yen Binh Industry Zone, Thai Nguyen. Photo: T.Trang

Looking back at the work which needs to be carried out in the remaining months of 2018, the Director General asked the units to speed up and complete the plans set out in the drafting of legal documents, modernization of customs supervision, state budget collection...

For the work of customs supervision, the Director General also required units to actively deploy automated customs management systems at seaports and airports; increase the use of machinery to screen for import-export goods; promoting the implementation of the Action Program on the implementation of the National Single Window and the ASEAN Single Window.

Particularly, requesting on the work of revenue collection, the Director General emphasized that in the last two months of 2018, the units should step up the application of measures in order to prevent losses, closely control the declaration and application of tax rates and preferential tariff rate, avoid the tax fraud between the normal tax rate and preferential tax rate. Along with that, strict supervision, compliance with regulations, the case of tax refund.

It is known that, by the end of 10/2018, the amount of revenue collection of the whole Customs sector reached 254,160 billion VND, equivalent to 89.810% of the current appropriation, equaling 86.74% of the target (293,000 billion VND), increased by 6.82% over the same period in 2017.

According to the analysis of the Director of Import-Export Duty Department Luu Manh Tuong, the revenue in the first 10 months is higher than the same period of 2017 because the import turnover in the first 10 months of 2018 increased 13% over the same period in 2017. In that, the import turnover of some commodities with big revenue tended to increase as follows: computers, electronic products and components was estimated at $US 34.61 billion, increasing by 13.2%; iron and steel of all kinds estimated to achieve at $US 8.33 billion, increased by 10.6%; Petrol was estimated to achieve at $US 6.77 billion, increased by 20%; Other common metals were estimated at $US 6.21 billion, increased by 29.9%.

In particular, the revenue collected from the import of petroleum products in 2018 increased more than 20,000 billion VND. Thus, thanks to this item, in some local customs authorities, the situation of revenue collection is quite satisfactory like Khanh Hoa Customs, Quang Ngai Customs, Quang Ninh Customs.

However, the Director of Import-Export Duty Department also said that in the last two months of the year, the Customs sector has been implementing the work of refunding about 4,000 billion VND of tax for businesses. In particular, the amount of tax refund for auto parts is about 2,400 billion VND, tax refund for petrol products is about 1,700 billion VND.

In order to complete the task of collecting state revenue, besides the solutions already proposed at the beginning of the year, the Director of the Import-Export Duty Department also said that the Import-Export Duty Department has developed a specialized scheme of anti-fraud in the application of tariffs, in that presenting the solution for establishing conditions and localizing the items.