Manufacturers request facilitated procedures at customs

Issues related to customs procedures with a broader base, estimated by the daily practice of entrepreneurship in facing fiscal administration. This is what is summarized in a package of requirements that the Albanian Association of Manufacturers has addressed to the Ministry of Finance.

According to this package, these issues were identified by entrepreneurs operating in manufacturing, members of the Union of Albanian Producers and in consultation with them, directly expressed in the Customs Code of the Republic of Albania and the new implementing provisions.

Manufacturers seek a unification with the law on tax procedures, according to which the subject is obligated to submit bank guarantees on the alleged obligation from the administration.

Likewise, the board that reviews complaints of tax administration, should also consider those for customs administration.

Proposal: Self-correction of customs declarations when there are no financial effects, eliminating the application of penalties.

Proposal: Scanning fee to be paid for containers and not for every customs declaration.

Proposal: Nomenclature codes of goods should be unified with those of the EU countries.

Proposal: The basis for determining liabilities should customs receipts. Since the law provides for the use of reference prices when the presented documents do not guarantee reliability, subjects should be required to present additional documentation to demonstrate the reliability of the documents. This process should have full transparency as well as the process of changing reference prices.

Proposal: The physical control of the customs authority should be unified with that of scanner control.

Proposal: A time-limit of about 4 hours should be introduced to complete the customs procedures, starting from the moment of submission of customs documents. After the expiry of this period, if the practice is not passed, it should pass automatically. The customs officer should close the practice within this timeframe, or should block it in the system, giving the precise motive of the action.

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