VCN – The pilot program to support and encourage companies to voluntarily comply with customs law will be implemented more professionally, ensuring consistency in the whole sector.
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| The conference at the General Department of Customs. Photo: QH |
That is the guidance of the Deputy Director General of Customs Hoang Viet Cuong at the online conference on implementing Decision 1399/QD-TCHQ dated July 15, 2022, on the pilot program to support and encourage businesses to comply with customs law voluntarily will be implemented more professionally, ensuring the consistency in the whole sector on September 6.
The conference is attended by a representative from departments under the General Department of Customs and local customs at the General Department of Customs’ headquarters and 35 local customs units.
Businesses benefit from compliance with customs law
At the conference, a representative of the Risk Management Department (General Department of Customs) outlined Decision 1399.
Accordingly, the General Department of Customs requires that after two years of implementation, 100% of enterprises participating in the program will not be sanctioned for violations of the customs law and are assessed for their compliance at level 2 (high compliance), and level 3 (medium compliance). At the same time, the data and information indicators related to the management, monitoring and report of the program implementation as well as interactive activities with enterprises are implemented on a digital platform, meeting the requirements of digital transformation of the Customs sector (according to Decision 707/QD-TCHQ on approving the Plan for the digital transformation of the Customs sector up to 2025 with a vision to 2030).
After five years of implementing the program, through support activities and voluntary compliance of enterprises, it is expected to increase the percentage of enterprises complying with levels 2 and level 3 to over 20% of the total number of enterprises engaged in import and export activities.
Within the framework of the program, enterprises will be facilitated, supported and guided by the Customs authorities on contents related to the fields of application of risk management, compliance with customs laws and customs procedures for import-export and transit goods.
Specifically, enterprises will be supported and guided by the Customs for free according to the commitments in the memorandum of understanding upon request; and be recognized by the Customs office as a member, participation process on the enterprise’s profile and the professional systems of the Customs authority to ensure the timely and effective support.
In addition, Customs will assign customs officers to support and solve problems during customs clearance directly; warn factors that reduce the compliance level of enterprises, and provide warning information on risk trends in supply chain security, IP infringement in the field of import and export, internal risks in import and export operations.
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| Video conference at 35 local customs units |
The program will be implemented in all businesses
Concluding the conference, Deputy Director General of the General Department of Customs Hoang Viet Cuong said, the implementation of this program is a major policy of the Customs sector, approaching international practices, especially the implementation of the WCO standard framework. The whole Customs sector has drastically and effectively applied risk management as well as implemented Decision 1399, and the effort of the Risk Management Department in advising, presiding over and taking the initiative of the provincial and municipal customs departments in the implementation is worthy of recognition.
“The Customs sector has been supporting businesses to comply with customs laws. However, the implementation of the pilot Program to support and encourage enterprises to voluntarily comply with the customs law will be implemented more professionally, ensuring consistency across the sector and complying with the policy of the Government, the Ministry of Finance and the Customs ” said the Deputy Director General.
The pilot program will be carried out for 266 enterprises of all types of imports and export.
Deputy Director General Hoang Viet Cuong requests units to continue to review to ensure that the pilot implementation will cover all small and medium-sized enterprises, thereby offering solutions to support each enterprise. Accordingly, the Risk Management Department continues to work with other departments, agencies and customs departments of provinces and cities to select enterprises and draw lessons from the pilot implementation to expand the program.
 | Piloting support for enterprises voluntarily complying with Customs Law |
“If the pilot implementation is effective, through the preliminary review and summary of compliance levels, as well as benefits for enterprises from the services of the Customs authority increase, then 266 businesses will be “communicators” ” to disseminate to others in the community and each field, towards law-compliant enterprises”. The Deputy Director General assigns the Risk Management Department to advise, guide, as well as have a unified reporting mechanism for the implementation of the program across the sector; research and build specialized pages on the Portal (https://www.customs.gov.vn/) to exchange with and receive opinions from local customs departments.
By Quang Hung/ Huyen Trang