The first quarter: Customs increased revenue thanks to major goods

Comparison between the export-import turnover in the first quarter of 2017 with the previous years.

According to the statistics of the General Department of Customs, in the first three months of 2017, Customs reached 66,800 billion VND, achieved 23.44% of the budget forecast target, up 18.5% over the same period of 2016.

Analysis of the import-export situation showed that in the first 3 months of 2017, total import - export value of goods was expected to reach $US 89.36 billion, up 17.5% over the same period in 2016 (in which, the total export value was estimated at $US 43.73 billion, up 12.8% and total import value is $US 45.63 billion, up 22.4% over the same period of 2016).

It was also estimated that in the first quarter of 2017, the total number of export-import declarations reached 2.5 million, an increase of 17.2% over the same period of 2016 (in which the number of export declarations was estimated at 1.2 million, up 15.2% and the number of import declarations was estimated at 1.3 million, up 19.1% over the same period of 2016). The number of import-export enterprises in the first quarter of 2017 reached 50,900, up 12.5% over the same period of 2016.

The revenue of the first three months of 2017 increased over the same period of 2016, a representative of the Export-Import Tax Department explained that the import turnover of some big revenue goods increased in February and March such as: Machinery, equipment, tools and spare parts increased by 28.3%; Computers, electronic products and components increased by 15%; Raw material plastic increased by 21.2%; Complete automobiles in all types increased by 43.4% over the same period of 2016 (in particular, the number of cars with 9 seats or less was imported was about 14,410 units in the first quarter of 2017).

That is the impact of objective factors on the State budget revenues of the whole Customs. However, in order to achieve this result, Customs strengthened trade facilitation in parallel with strict customs management, in which, focused on recovering outstanding debts, managing tax debt recoveries. anti-fraud trade, enhancing post-clearance inspection.

Specifically, from the early days of 2017, Customs has stepped up the management of revenue collection, revenue exploitation, anti-loss through price consultation, determination of valuation, determination of tax code; Post-clearance inspection, strengthening the mechanism of inter-sectoral coordination to prevent, inspect, and detect trade fraud acts through the origin of goods, determining goods with unusual revenue signs, and goods with high tax rates.

In order to manage the revenue collection tightly, the General Department of Customs asked provincial Customs Departments to evaluate the regular State budget collection monthly, in which to analyze clearly the causes of increase or decrease compared to the same period last month, estimate the State budget collection for the following month, at the same time, report and analysis the tax debts situation, supervision, recovery, and handling for tax debts, and implementation solutions.

The units also focus on reviewing and penetrating the situation of tax debts in the units; Classify the debt group that can be collected, and debt group that cannot, each debt group is assessed particularly under each declaration, each debt company, the actual situation of each company, reasons for not recovering debts; and take appropriate debt handling measures. So, by March 21, 2007, the number of outstanding debts for the Customs clearance derations was 5,495 billion VND, down 77 billion VND compared with debts of December 2016 (5,572 billion VND), equivalent to a decrease of 1.38%.

Particularly in Customs supervision, the Customs Department of provinces and cities have strengthened the management at seaports, airports, border gates, warehouses to ensure the requirements of goods inspection and supervision from the beginning to the end. They have improved the quality of flow division, inspection decisions, and checked the quality of export and import goods gradually in accordance with the standards regulated by the Ministries and Branches.

Customs offices at all levels have also promoted the post-CFustoms clearance inspection in accordance with legal regulations, limited exploitation of loopholes in pre-Customs clearance and Customs clearance for tax fraud and evasion. They have concentrated on inspecting enterprises, sectors, and key goods with high risks; Reviewed tax debts because of tax assessment under the decisions on post-Customs clearance inspection, the inspection decisions of the General Department of Customs and the provincial Customs Departments on the basis of law provisions to carry out debt recovery. From January 1st to March 15th, 2017, Customs carried out post-Customs clearance inspection of 1,312 cases, decided collection 236.51 billion VND (equivalent to 70% of the same period in 2016), and collected 149.94 billion VND of real State budget revenue (including debt collection from previous years) (equal to 45% over the same period in 2016).

One of the factors contributing to the State budget revenue of Customs in the first quarter was the result of anti-smuggling and anti-trade fraud. From December 15th 2016 to March 15th 2017, Customs coordinated, detected and arrested 3,147 violation cases, 66.131 million VND of the estimated value of violation goods, collected 33,49 billion VND for the State budget revenue (up 13.7% over the same period of 2016). Customs offices prosecuted 6 criminal cases, transferred 13 cases to another agencies for prosecuting.

According to the Export-Import Tax Department, in the next few months of 2017, FTAs will continue to have a deep and widespread impact on the State budget revenues of Customs, particularly indirect collection reduction due to trade diversion. Therefore, continuing to be patient with the proposed solutions and trade facilitation is an effective way for Customs to succeed with the State budget revenue target of 2017.