Customs prepares for automation: controlling 50% of lost revenue

[size=52]Customs prepares for automation: controlling 50% of lost revenue[/size]

[size=45]The Director General of the Iraq Customs Authority, Shaker Mahmoud Al-Zubaidi, revealed yesterday the completion of the final preparations to start activating the first phase of the customs automation system project (electronic operation) for the customs management systems in an accurate and sound manner, linking the local and international trade exchange.[/size]
[size=45]He indicated that the new system is applied in 80 countries and contributes to curbing corruption, red tape and nepotism, and returns nearly 50% of lost revenues to the state treasury. Al-Zubaidi said in a statement received by Al-Mada that "the first phase includes preparing computers, communications and accounting applications for dispatches and the database through the electronic customs system (ASYCUDA), as well as preparing halls for training customs officials at a high level of education, and providing housing to house UN experts. United". Al-Zubaidi pointed out that “the integrated system of computerization of customs procedures is an effective tool in the hands of the customs authority, and it is managed exclusively by its human resources, who are at a high level of efficiency and professionalism in the application of information and communication technologies, and its connection between the customs authority and its centers and state departments supporting border crossings on the one hand, and countries and ports on the one hand, and countries and ports on the one hand. country on the other hand.” And he stated that "the new system will lead to the elimination of interference in the powers and the margin of personal diligence, acceptance and processing of manual (manifest) and customs permits for shipments and goods for import, export, and transit, and the payment of fees and taxes due, to customs clearance of goods." Al-Zubaidi added that “the Minister of Finance, Ali Abdul Amir Allawi, had signed in Baghdad, last May, a document to automate and modernize the (General Customs Authority) system with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in its updated version, which the United Nations provided free of charge to Iraq to be among the 80 A country that applies it in trade exchange globally, as those countries achieved, when applying it, nearly 50% of the lost revenues as a minimum.” And he indicated that "the necessity of the system lies in its techniques to improve the customs administration systems that must be implemented in the management of systems that help government efforts seeking to join the global economic systems and speed up the completion and simplify the procedures and secure them from corruption and waste of public money."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Zubaidi pointed out that “revenue data and economic information during the implementation of the system will ensure that its confidentiality is not breached, as it is in the hands of the state, in addition to the fact that it will achieve the recovery of approximately 50% of (lost revenues) in smuggling and manipulation, since most countries achieved this number after its application before. its institutions as a minimum in accordance with international data and standards.” On the other hand, the General Authority of Customs confirmed working to return all customs points on the roads leading to the ports of Kurdistan. The director of legal and customs affairs at the authority, Adel Suleiman, said, according to the statement, that “the authority achieved an increase in revenues compared to last year by 15 to 17% through the efforts of the director general and the staff of the authority,” noting that “the percentage that was achieved was mostly in The last quarter of last year 2021, as the effort that achieved more than half of what was achieved in the first months of last year was doubled.[/size]
[size=45]He pointed out that "there is work to restore customs points on the roads leading to all ports of the Kurdistan region, due to non-compliance with Resolution 18 of 2019, in addition to the presence of many unofficial outlets," stressing that "this year will witness an explosion in customs revenues after achieving this." .[/size]
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