M. Yesenbayev named key issues of customs administration

ASTANA. April 9. KAZINFORM Head of the Kazakh Finance Ministry's Customs Committee Mazhit Yesenbayev named the key issues of the customs administration at the Government meeting.

According to him, Kazakhstan ranked 162 on the flexibility of customs procedures and 181 on the World's Bank ease of doing business index. At the same time, Yesenbayev noted the key problems such as unreliable declaration of goods imported to the SES territory, low passage goods through customs service, the opacity of customs administration procedures on the board, shady business of brokers and the presence of economic criminals in the border regions.

To slove these  problems, the head of the Customs Committee suggested taking such actions as to reduce regulatory authorities, transfer administration and collection of indirect taxes to tax authorities, provide preliminary information exchange on goods transported between Kazakhstan's customs administrations and the countries of the counterparty, develop and implement public services'  standards  on customs procedures, develop an integrated customs tariff, automation of risk management in the application of the transit customs procedures  and others.