Supporting businesses to voluntarily comply with customs laws in Vietnam: Ensuring 100% of participating enterprises are not handled for violations of customs laws in Vietnam?
- Ensuring 100% of enterprises after 2 years participating in the pilot program to support and encourage enterprises to voluntarily comply with the customs law will not be handled for violations of the customs law?
- What is Customs Compliance Support?
- Principles of implementing pilot program to support and encourage enterprises to voluntarily comply with customs law?
Ensuring 100% of enterprises after 2 years participating in the pilot program to support and encourage enterprises to voluntarily comply with the customs law will not be handled for violations of the customs law?
Pursuant to the provisions of Article 1 of the Program issued together with Decision 1399/QD-TCHQ in 2022 stipulating the objectives and requirements of the pilot program to support and encourage enterprises to voluntarily comply with the maritime law regard as follows:
“Article 1. Purpose, requirements and objectives of the Program
1. Purpose
a. Facilitate trade, reduce costs for businesses through improving the level of legal compliance of enterprises, reducing the rate of physical inspection of imported and exported goods.
b. Support enterprises to limit and overcome obstacles and difficulties in carrying out customs procedures, proactively take measures to prevent and avoid violations of customs laws, improve self-compliance with laws of enterprises.
c. Establishing a reliable partnership between customs authorities and enterprises in import, export and transit activities as a basis for trade facilitation and enhancing competitiveness of enterprises.
2. Program requirements and objectives
a. Target:
- More than 80% of enterprises participating in the Pilot Program to support and encourage enterprises to voluntarily comply with the customs law (hereinafter referred to as the Program for short) can increase their compliance level or keep the high level of compliance.
- Over 80% of participating enterprises are satisfied with the support measures of the customs authority.
b. Request:
- After 2 years of implementation, 100% of enterprises participating in the Program have not been handled for customs law violations in Appendix VI of Circular 41/2014/TT-BTC dated November 15, 2019 , is assessed for legal compliance level 2 (high compliance), level 3 (medium compliance) according to the provisions of Circular 81/2014/TT-BTC dated November 15, 2019.
- After 2 years of implementation, the data, information indicators related to the management, monitoring and reporting of the Program's implementation as well as the interaction activities with enterprises participating in the Program must be based on The version is made on a digital basis, meeting the requirements of digital transformation of the customs sector according to the Decision No. 707/QD - TCHQ dated May 4, 2022 on the approval of the plan on digital transformation of the customs sector. towards 2025 with orientation to 2030.
- After 5 years of implementation of the Program, through support activities and voluntary compliance of enterprises, strive to increase the rate of enterprises complying with level 2 and level 3 to over 20% of the total number of operating enterprises. import and export.”
Accordingly, after 2 years of implementation, it is necessary to ensure that 100% of enterprises participating in the Program are not handled for violations of the customs law.
What is Customs Compliance Support?
Pursuant to the provisions of Clause 1, Article 1 of the Program promulgated together with Decision 1399/QD-TCHQ in 2022, providing for the interpretation of terms according to which:
“Article 2. Interpretation of terms
1. Customs law compliance support activities are activities of consulting, answering problems, providing information and warning risks by customs authorities at all levels (specifically specified in Article 5 below. ) for enterprises in the process of import, export and transit activities for the purpose of facilitating trade, helping enterprises to prevent and avoid violations, and encouraging enterprises to voluntarily improve their compliance with customs laws. "
Accordingly, customs compliance support activities are activities of consulting, answering questions, providing information and warning risks by customs authorities at all levels (specifically specified in Article 5 below). here) for enterprises during import and export activities.
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Principles of implementing pilot program to support and encourage enterprises to voluntarily comply with customs law?
Pursuant to the provisions of Clause 1, Article 3 of the Program issued together with Decision 1399/QD-TCHQ in 2022, stipulating the principles of implementing the pilot program to support and encourage enterprises to voluntarily comply with the maritime law regard as follows:
“Article 3. Principles and scope of implementation
The customs authority shall carry out activities to support the compliance with customs laws for enterprises participating in the Program according to the following principles, scope and forms:
1. Implementation principles
a. During the implementation of the Program, the activities of the customs authorities and participating members must ensure compliance with the processes and regulations of the law.
b. Activities within the framework of the Program do not cause administrative procedures, damage and unnecessary work for businesses.
c. Within 24 hours from the time the customs office receives the request or request for support from the member enterprise, the information will be transferred to a specialized unit for study and settlement and the earliest reply. In case of force majeure that cannot be done, the civil servant assigned to deal with it must notify and explain the reason to the enterprise."
Thus, after 2 years of implementing the Pilot Program to support and encourage businesses to voluntarily comply with the customs law, 100% of enterprises participating in the Program will not be handled for violations. customs law.
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