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Customs Authority is seeking a partnership with the private sector
5/10/2016 0:00 [rtl] BAGHDAD - Bashir Khazaal most countries impose taxes and fees of customs as a way to achieve a number of economic and development goals, including local protection of products from foreign competition and expand domestic production base and export development, and to provide financial resources to the state treasury to cover government expenditures, as well as to facilitate the control and quality control task the volume of imports, despite how the enormous import in Iraq, Alkmarki law remained stalled after the fall of the dictatorial regime in most border crossings, so that the state has found itself facing a big financial bind after the collapse of oil prices and , in the recent period has been the application of customs tariffs on imported to Iraq of goods Act, Having adopted the national Commission for Customs package of new measures to support the State Treasury in coordination with the Iraqi Central Bank to monitor goods entering the country. difference in some developing Alkmarki work procedures require funds to buy and create the infrastructure to activate the work of border crossings in a scientific and technically sophisticated does not allow the intervention of wills personal skip this economic system, and because of the difficult financial situation suffered by government institutions, have adopted some of the ideas of private sector participation in creating infrastructure to work Alkmarki, but such a project was not agreed upon, because it may lead to some of the interventions in the work of the customs institutions in dealing with traders and importers. trapping corruption , economic expert , Dr. Medhat al - Quraishi pointed out in a special study to «important notes about the imposition of taxes and fees of customs, as among the most important problems that can be faced with the application of the law, it could lead to higher prices for imported goods subject to taxes and fees in the local market prices, resulting in to affected consumers and opposition by business interests (domestic and foreign), as well as some politicians and influential people associated with those interests who oppose and work to block such a move because it conflicted with their interests ». , referring to the lack of efficiency and fairness of the administrative body responsible for guessing the collection, since the levied funds this taxes the whole is not due to the general budget, but go to some parties and individuals are corrupt and mafia pockets in various departments and state agencies, in the tax levy devices, some of Almkhmnin haggling citizens to pay a certain amount in exchange for reducing the amount of tax dramatically and seductive, encourages citizen bow to this demand and lead to the public treasury deprived of many of these funds. noting that there are a lot of doubts about the fate of the money collected from the border crossing points and the citizens, so we must be combined to achieve the goal behind the imposition of taxes and fees of customs means to ensure removal of the impact of corruption this process and verify collected accurately and delivered to the competent financial authorities. taxpayer in the Allawi district beautiful one coming truckers said of the province of Basra, named Salim Hassan Gharwaa: «I hope that drawing Alkmarki be within the electronic mechanism where the owner of the goods does not deal with any government employee could compromise the merchant or importing a percentage discount from the amount of the fee Alkmarki, and go millions of dollars to the pockets of corrupt », noting that the border crossings are still working through the primitive and the most basic elements of quality control and strict examination available are free of utilities that can provide comfort and atmosphere appropriate for their workers or crossing the border, especially drivers of large vehicles and trucks that transport goods imported into the country. He pointed out that there should be a means of cutting - edge technology to assess and collect customs duties at border crossing points to curb manipulation and compromises made by some of the weak people through operations exploiting functional office. seriousness of the customs Director of the national Commission for customs Kazim Ali Abdullah said: «the Commission has done its coordination with the Central Bank of Iraq, the fact that the financial crisis faced by the country alerted the executive bodies to the seriousness of the monetary and fiscal accounting policy», indicating that the current situation has contributed to accelerate efforts to correct the monetary and financial country 's policy through government action to achieve great achievements had been neglected for many years, adding that the economic file was behind the political file, what needs to be awarded monetary and financial institutions sufficient time to achieve reform, especially the financial and administrative corruption hit some joints State. He pointed out that coordination with the Central Bank return to «dangerous» auction currency, being a drain on hard currency by traders as well as the seriousness of customs as contribute to the goods entering the movement of corporate governance, with the adoption of a mechanism to monitor the size of the purchase money and compared to the imported goods. He pointed Abdul God to «that the body possesses considerable coordination with the Ministry of transport through direct railway transport of goods Baktaradtha from the southern ports toward the stores Ahalchip», he confirmed that an ambitious circle boils that are customs procedures in stores Ahalchip after the transfer of goods to them, encouraging traders to transport their goods by railways being safe and less expensive. pressures and what promotes the existence of pressure exerted on the body by some politicians regarding exemptions on some goods from fees, Abdullah stressed that «his department and the Ministry of Finance an executive can not be granted exemption or charge fees Kmarkip not prescribed by law », indicating that the intervention of some politicians come through administrative selection, locations and staff presence in Alkmarki work. calling on politicians to desist from this method because it is inconsistent with the administrative and national values, noting that his department is trying as much as possible to put the right person in the right place to take advantage of its production optimally, stressing that interventions if they got it Stohn Alkmarki work, the fact that some officials are trying to intervene administrative affairs for customs. customs novel in regard to checkpoints customs developed recently in the vicinity of Baghdad , said the Director of the Authority: «it 's extremely intelligent action», likely the reason behind its creation to the feet of some traders to introduce their goods from the region ports , some of which have not applied customs tariff, confirming the presence of authorized body under the law resulted in activation of this matter, especially as the legal and administrative ground available to inspect the goods flowing into the main discharge zones in Iraq. He «the work of these checkpoints includes the completion of the tariff measures in the central area stores Kalhsoh and Ahalchip for goods that have not been charging them at border crossing points», indicating that this was not aimed at financial revenue only, but to achieve balance and coordination between the various ports, noting that points exist in the governor places on the roads, stressing that in the event of unification of the work of ports , including the Kurdistan region, may be limited to existing ones and not expanded. joint operation between Abdullah , said that « the Commission will resort to co - operating with the private sector, especially as the legal ground available to achieve this project through Article 15 of Iraq 's budget law for 2016 , and this article provides for government departments work in a way co - operation. » He stressed that« the Authority will implement this method because some develop Alkmarki work procedures require funds to purchase and the creation of infrastructure, particularly that the financial situation is difficult and the private sector can provide the necessary funds, and thus obscures financially on the budget burden, and that the private sector will be more careful on the infrastructure that is is it initiates or created because they are part of the capital ». Mstrsla in his speech that the body between the two options, to manage the sector your entire port under the supervision of the Commission or deliberately interoperability in detail important a detailed detection and evaluation, because this requires a balance of gantry and Sunarat and other materials. procedures agent Authority director Osama Youssef al - Maliki said: «the Commission is conducting a review of some of the instructions for the exemptions of customs on goods imported from Arab countries as well as some government imports, which amounts exempted exceed more than two billion dollars annually subject to the approval of the Council of Ministers and the House of Representatives ». He explained that the instructions exemption Alkmarki issued in different conditions of economic conditions that are currently taking place in the country, have suspended paragraphs of or re - examine them, stressing that Iraq does not enjoy similar exemptions to other countries for being a country is the source of any local product because the country is exposed to several wars, as well as targeting its economy national. Maliki and expected to see the next term significant growth in Authority revenues as a result of actions taken in that develop Alkmarki work in order to provide additional funds for the annual budget of the state, pointing out that the Directors of the Authority is currently conducting periodic evaluation of administrative positions in the centers and areas of customs process based on objective grounds associated with the capabilities and resources to accomplish functional tasks that fall within the jurisdiction rather than the standard haphazard Kalmahabah to achieve personal interests. He pointed out that the directives of the Authority Director focused on the need for the completion of the evaluation plan on schedule parallel with the objectives of the government 's reform program to combat corruption and to maximize the resources of the State Finance. He explained that « the Commission continues to implement the instructions issued by the Supreme own rotate workers in the centers staff References customs annually in order to fight corruption through the elimination of special relationships with auditors from the merchants and their agents to redeem their goods at ports », referring to the formation of a special committee to the process of preparing customs lists and submit them to the Director - General for approval, confirming the presence of cooperation by the Authority with the Department of the Inspector General and regulators to curb corruption centers and the areas of customs, as it resulted in this collaboration to refer a number of financial and administrative corruption files to the competent authorities in order to take legal action against violators instructed customs to keep the money year. higher revenues governmental action to maximize the financial resources of the application of customs tariff law began reaping the fruit, the Directorate confirmed Customs southern region higher revenues by 90 percent during the second half of the month of February after comparing how long before the non - implementation of the Act, at a time when the Directorate plunged Mlakatha cycles developmental to detect smuggling and manipulation of documents and implementation of laws sharply operations. Director of Customs in the southern region , Ahmed Nouri stressed that « the customs tariff is one of the most prominent features of the development of the economies of countries that pursued in the framework of international trade in order to get the public treasury and the protection of the product and national security resources», indicating that despite the reluctance of some traders on the promotion of customs transactions after the issuance of guidance director General of the General customs Authority to apply the tariff at the beginning of February the law, but a substantial rise by revenue generated from the implementation of the law was clear, which reached 90 percent during the second half of last February, reaching 31 billion and 716 million dinars , compared to the January month , which amounted to a amount of revenue is 16 billion and 61 million dinars in the same quantities usual monthly import through Basra , sea and land ports , which amounts to 9 legal outlets, as well as graying port in the province of Maysan. 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