Quang Ninh Customs: Actively collecting information for "post-clearance audit"

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Customs operations in Mong Cai under Quang Ninh Customs Department. Photo: Quang Hung.

According to Quang Ninh Customs Department, as for the collection of information, if Customs forces carries it out more frequently, it will help cadres and civil servants link up their professional activities. It will be more effective especially when Customs officers check a large number of imports, exports and Customs declarations. Therefore, the leaders of Quang Ninh Customs Department always pay close attention to the implementation of the steps for collecting information to make a good selection of checking subjects. Along with that, Customs forces will both ensure the control of import and export activities, and help businesses improve compliance with the Law and reduce errors at Customs clearance.

In 2017, the export and import sectors were mainly export-import businesses; investment; machining; export production; temporary imports for re-exporting. Thus, Quang Ninh Customs Department has built specialized subjects in the fields of Customs valuation; inspection of the rate of mineral resources in the production of cement and clinker products for exporting; inspections of export production activities and investment projects.

In addition, Quang Ninh Customs Department also proposed many solutions to improve the efficiency of the work of Customs post-clearance audit. One of the solutions applied by Ninh Customs Department is to improve the quality of collection and analysis of information sources in order to select checking subjects and develop them. This helped the unit fulfill the task of exceeding the target of 290 cases for Customs post-clearance audit. In 2017, State revenues reached approximately VND 23.7 billion (exceeding 18.5% compared with the target) and the average detection rate was 26%.

From the beginning of 2018 to the end of 19 February 2018, Quang Ninh Customs Department issued 33 post-clearance inspection decisions, and collected VND 7.39 billion.

In 2018, the number of enterprises operating in import and export through the province has not changed much, the task of Customs in Quang Ninh Customs Department requires further innovation approaches to improve public quality as well as information gathering. Quang Ninh Customs Department is building a General Directory of activities of enterprises inside and outside Quang Ninh province to create a database of professional operations in direct service of practical operations. In particular, the establishment of multiple criteria will help the information to be diversified and confidential.

Based on the collected information, Customs officiers can easily filter, analyze, select and propose key checking subjects as a basis for Quang Ninh Customs Department to develop and propose a joint list. This plan will be submitted to the General Department of Vietnam Customs for approval.

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