For First Time Customs Do Not Cope with Forecast
The Azerbaijan Customs do not cope with meeting the targets for the collection of customs duties and taxes. Thus, the economic crisis also "reached out" to the customs offices.
The statistical analysis shows that this is the first time since the start of leadership of the State Customs Committee by Kamaladdin Heydarov 20 years ago, who was later replaced by Aydin Aliyev.
According to the State Customs Committee, in January-September through the agency 1 billion 124.2 million AZN was transferred, 10.7 million AZN less than in the comparable period of 2014.
In September of this year, customs officers provided the transfer of AZN 103.7 million to the state budget from the participants of foreign trade activities. This is the lowest rate of customs revenues since January 2014 (97.3 million AZN). In September 2014 the customs legally collected 133.5 million manats.
This year, the plan forecast for the collection of customs duties and taxes is 1 billion 590 million. manats. In 2016 the customs had the same plan. --- 08D
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