How was the fight against smuggling, trade fraud and other customs work in the first 4 months of the year?

As the standing body of Steering Committee 389 of the Ministry of Finance, the General Department of Customs has advised the Ministry of Finance to coordinate with ministries, branches and functional agencies to strengthen the fight against smuggling. , commercial fraud, counterfeit goods and illegal cross-border transportation of goods; directing units to seriously and effectively implement many important measures to ensure safety, social security and crime prevention.

Customs inspects goods at Mong Cai Customs Branch – Quang Ninh Customs Department.

Specifically as follows: Promulgating 04 plans to direct the customs control force to effectively carry out customs control of the whole industry: Plan to implement customs control in 2022; Plan on drug prevention and control for the period 2021 – 2025 of the Customs sector; Implement the Peak Plan to fight smuggling, commercial fraud, counterfeit goods, and illegal cross-border transportation of goods on the occasion of the Lunar New Year; the key work plan on collecting and processing control information in 2022.

Promulgating 08 guiding and warning documents focusing on prohibited items, conditional goods, hot and prominent phenomena such as: strengthening control of petroleum and coal on border lines and sea areas; strengthen the fight against smuggling and trade fraud in cigarettes and sugar; enhanced control of precursors; warn of tricks of illegal transportation of drugs and prohibited goods via express delivery; warn against taking advantage of independent transport to smuggle and illegally transport goods across borders; combating counterfeiting and protecting IP rights.

Results of the direct struggle: From December 16, 2021 to April 15, 2022, the Anti-Smuggling and Investigation Department has strengthened the implementation of professional measures, collected information, mastered the management area. manage, preside over and coordinate in arresting 61 cases, the value of infringing goods is estimated at 1,044 billion VND; State budget revenue is estimated at 1.2 billion VND. Issue 10 decisions to prosecute criminal cases and 06 decisions to sanction administrative violations.

Risk management

In order to effectively implement risk management, at the beginning of the year, the General Department of Customs has issued the Risk Control Plan and the Plan for the collection and processing of risk management information in 2022; and at the same time guide and answer problems of Customs Departments of provinces and cities during the implementation process.

Risk analysis and assessment, identifying key areas according to a number of key sectors and industries such as: construction stone, steel, consumer goods, origin fraud, temporarily imported goods, re-exported goods, etc. to propose appropriate risk control measures for consignments showing signs of risk or violation. Closely monitor the screening situation in the areas, actively exchange and coordinate the screening of goods, creating maximum convenience for businesses to carry out screening in accordance with the transportation route and at the request of the business. .

Result: In the first quarter of 2022, the whole Industry has scanned a total of 18,052 conts, 1,037 suspicious conts (accounting for 5.74%/total cont), violated cont’s 119 cont (reaching 11.48). %/total questionable content). The total volume of containers decreased by 26.19% over the same period due to the continued influence of the Covid-19 epidemic, but the volume of violating containers was 2.53 times higher. In April, the total number of conts screened in the whole industry reached 10,851 conts, 717 conts of suspicion (accounting for 6.6%/total probes), 46 conts of violation (reaching 6.42%/total conts of suspicion).

Streaming and inspection of goods: From January 1 to April 15, 2022, the whole industry applies about 120,000 indicators and criteria to ensure smooth channeling of more than 4 million declarations: 2,691,219 green channel declarations accounting for 66.65%; 817,151 yellow channel declarations account for 29.65% and 149,452 red channel declarations account for 3.7%. A total of 4,196 violation records were established, 12,568 times of violating organizations and individuals were sanctioned.

Post-customs clearance inspection

In order to synchronously implement the postal audit work for a number of management areas, the General Department of Customs has researched and assessed risk signs in a number of areas of customs management under 7 topics (thematic aspects of customs management). Imported goods have 2 tax rates; Imported drugs and raw materials for drug production; Tires used for cargo cars, tractors, semi-trailers; Imported scrap; Specialized in imported used machinery and equipment; Proposing origin of goods for export to the US; Specializing in exporting goods to India), has made a list of 202 enterprises in the areas under the management of the Departments. Customs of provinces and cities; assigned Customs Departments of provinces and cities to analyze data, evaluate sources of professional information, identify signs of violations and methods of conducting inspections to carry out post-audit audits in the first 6 months of 2022.

Continue to develop and finalize the Decision amending Decision 575/QD-TCHQ dated March 21, 2019 on the issuance of the Post-Clearance Inspection Process, which integrates the priority business management process according to regulations. Taking the initiative in the direction of handling existing problems, ensuring compliance with legal regulations, managing cadres and civil servants in performing the tasks of the postal audit, and avoiding negative consequences.

From January 1, 2022 to April 15, 2022, the whole Sector conducted 386 times of post-clearance audit, including 133 times at the headquarters of the customs declarant and 253 times at the headquarters of the customs office. The total amount of tax assessment and administrative penalties is 105.50 VND, actually collected into the state budget 64.08 billion VND.

Inspection and examination work

Implementing Decision No. 2208/QD-BTC dated November 25, 2021 of the Ministry of Finance approving the specialized inspection plan (abbreviated as TTCN) in 2022 of the General Department of Customs, the General Department of Customs has issued the following documents: Decision No.: 3187, 3188, 3189/QD-TCHQ dated December 8, 2021 assigning units to implement the plan of industrial market in 2022; Decision No. 3213/QD-TCHQ dated December 14, 2021 approving internal inspection plan (abbreviated as Internal Audit) in 2022 of Customs Departments of provinces and cities; Decision No. 3238/QD-TCHQ dated December 22, 2021 approving the plan for the 2022 personal settlement of the Customs Departments of the provinces and cities; Decision No. 3393/QD-TCHQ dated December 31, 2021 approving the internal audit plan in 2022 of the General Department of Customs. On that basis, customs units have actively developed detailed implementation plans and organized the implementation of the internal audit and personal settlement plan in 2022.

Facing the complicated situation of the Covid-19 epidemic, the General Department of Customs continued to carry out online internal inspection through the professional information system and Customs surveillance cameras. The General Department of Customs has also directed units to report on the procurement of medical equipment, supplies, biological products, test kits, vaccines and drugs to prevent the Covid-19 epidemic to provide information. data under the direction of the Inspector of the Ministry of Finance; coordinate in providing information and data at the request of the Government Inspector; Inspecting some provinces on import prices of a number of supplies, drugs, and testing kits for the prevention of the Covid-19 epidemic; Monitor and urge the implementation of conclusions and recommendations of inspection teams and inspection teams by the Government Inspectorate and superior units; Coordinating with the Inspector of the Ministry of Finance to organize an online training conference in the whole sector on a number of contents of the law on anti-corruption.

In the first 4 months of 2022, the whole Industry carried out 32 inspections and tests, of which: 23 technical settlements (03 from the previous period and 20 deployed in the period) and 09 internal audits (01 from the previous period) before moving on and 08 deployments in the period).

The total amount of tax arrears proposed in the whole industry is 19,061 billion VND, of which arrears tax is 18,407 billion VND, administrative penalties: 654 million VND; paid the state budget 13,367 billion VND.

Tien Anh