Electronic clearance in HCMC: Revealing many defects

More than a month of piloting electronic customs clearance in Ho Chi Minh City, has achieved many results, but in order for this modernization step to achieve the desired criteria, there are still many problems to be solved.

New is the initial result

According to Ho Chi Minh City Customs Department, implementing e-customs procedures is a key task of the modernization plan in the immediate and long-term period. In that spirit, over a month (from October 4 to November 4) conducting an electronic clearance pilot in Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City Electronic Customs Department processed 576 declarations, including 509 import declarations. and 67 export declarations.

Employees of Ho Chi Minh City Electronic Customs Department use electronic clearance program

Specifically: export of 67 green flow declarations; Imports have 216 green-line declarations, 269 declarations of gold flows and 24 red-line declarations. Declaration of gold flow includes goods subject to inspection, goods subject to license, goods must be registered for state quality inspection, enterprises have tax debts, goods paying taxes immediately . and red lines include goods subject to paste stamps and goods have doubts about tax rates.

It is known that the time for carrying out procedures and clearance of goods of green flow is 3-10 minutes, golden flow is 20-30 minutes, red flow is 1-3 hours. The receipt of goods, the delivery of goods for customs confirmation of imported goods, has actually been exported depending on the preparation of delivery documents, means of transport and other professional activities of the concerned agencies .

According to Mr. Nguyen Thanh Long, Deputy Director of Ho Chi Minh City Electronic Customs Department, the total number of enterprises granted certificates of participation in e-customs procedures is 25, but only 20 enterprises have participated in the operation. customs clearance. From these 20 enterprises, the total import-export turnover reached 51.29 million USD, of which exports reached 16 million USD, imports reached 35.29 million USD. From here also calculated the total tax receivable is 102 billion, the tax has been collected 23.4 billion.

Electronics still do . craft

According to the HCM City e-customs sub-department, the results achieved above are quite positive, but also the first step. Currently, e-customs clearance still has many stages to handle manually. Specifically, when an enterprise requests a copy of the license, the e-customs Sub-department issues a tracking card to subtract the license and return the business. career.

In fact, the enterprises that carry out customs procedures when submitting permits to offset the quantity do not agree to let the e-customs Sub-Department keep the license so the monitoring of the current subtraction license, Sub-Department E-customs performs as when doing customs procedures manually.

Currently, there are no regulations on tax calculation, post-clearance inspection, information processing, risk management and customs control applied to e-customs procedures. Follow the manual process, not suitable for electronic customs procedures. The manual processing must be more specific as stipulated in Decision 50/2005 / QD-BTC: Enterprises shall declare and take self-responsibility in the calculation of tax, when the enterprise declares it electronically through the system The customs authorities check the tax calculation.

But the program has not yet been automatically implemented, e-customs sub-department must use its own self-built tax calculator to check the tax calculation. In addition, most of the policies of the special consumption tariffs have not been encrypted; Import and export tariffs, preferential tariffs for each country block, each country is not fully gathered so the distribution is completely done manually.

Incomplete software

The first is the issue of editing the declaration of the business. Since the program has not designed the contents of declaring the reasons for proposing the amendment of the enterprise's declaration, it automatically notifies the status of the enterprise's request for amendment declaration and the sequence of procedures for editing the declaration form. The plan on the program is not reasonable, so the cases of modified declarations are often handled slowly. Therefore, the customs office must regularly check the list of required declarations of the enterprise and must contact the business by phone to know if the contents to be amended can be accepted.

The software program also reveals incompleteness by monitoring and subtracting licenses that are implemented as manual customs procedures because the program has not been implemented yet because the license has many types and has not been standardized. For example, the license has 2 lines of identical codes, the system does not know which row to handle; if the quota is allocated according to the value, the system shall not know the deduction from the declared value or tax calculation value and subtract at any time; If the enterprise declares otherwise on the license, the system cannot handle it.

After that, the form of electronic customs declaration form HQ / 2005-TKDT is generally provided for import declarations and export declarations. For export declarations, it is very important to determine the country of importing goods in issuing C / O (certificate of origin of goods). However, the current declaration form does not have the criteria of importing countries, but only for exporting countries, so it is difficult for enterprises to issue C / O and payment .

Facing this fact, Mr. Do Dinh Thuc, Deputy Director of Ho Chi Minh City Customs Department, said that, quickly completing and upgrading the current program, correcting errors, adding missing functions as mentioned above is Things to do now.

Set up backup system, ensure safety for immediate electronic clearance, especially for the upcoming expansion period and study appropriate electronic customs clearance model according to appropriate roadmap, complete functions , the mission of the current e-customs sub-department is that it cannot be delayed.

There are such plans to expand electronic customs clearance with an estimated 60-70 enterprises in 2005 and carry out electronic clearance at Tan Son Nhat Airport, Tan Thuan Export Processing Zone and Linh Trung Airport. performance .

TAN