Africa-Press – Angola. The General Tax Administration (AGT) decided, for the current year, to take to the National Assembly (AN) the approval of the legislation and update of the new customs diploma, with a view to facilitating the international trade system.
The previous Customs Code was approved in 2004 and today no longer responds to the needs of facilitating trade and the modernization imposed by the updates that the international trade system itself has undergone, made known today, Thursday, in Lubango, the Director of AGT’s national customs services, Jerónimo Cambalanganja.
For the economist, the approval of the new customs package will allow authorized economic operators to join the program and be closer to taxpayers who operate, fundamentally, in the international chain.
One of the challenges he pointed out has to do with the modernization and restructuring of the reference customs offices and the expansion of posts and related control points, using sophisticated technological means, to stop the transport of unauthorized goods and the escape from tax.
He underlined that it is an instrument that will also allow a more adequate control at the borders and adapt them to various challenges through customs, throughout the country.
The intention, according to the source, is also to admit more personnel and equip its structures, in order to improve the control program for containers and electronic seals, in order to avoid transit deviations, a job currently done physically, whether in imports, as in exports, hence the focus on modernization.
In his view, this bet will also meet the needs of the seven regions controlled by AGT and reduce the time for goods waiting for an inspection team, as well as improve border control, as this is the only way to know how to identify the goods undeclared, some of them prohibited for importation.
Another bet, according to the director of the national customs services of the AGT, Jerónimo Cambalanganja, is to double the current number of authorized economic operators (brokers) which, since the implementation of the pilot program, is currently 50
The AGT, which comprises seven tax regions, results from the merger of the National Tax Directorate (DNI), the National Customs Service (SNA) and the Executive Project for Tax Reform (PERT), determined by presidential decree No. December.
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