- Digital gaps allow massive tax escapes.
- Key port processes lack modern automation.
- The dedications have an impact on the precision of commercial data.
Islamabad: an estimated difference at 5.5 billions of rupees has been detected in the trade in Pakistan with China in the past five years due to the submachine and the exploitation of digital integration gaps in ports of the country.
These gaps have enabled manipulation of freight manifests, declarations and tax assessments.
The sources of the Ministry of Defense, while referring to the conclusions of the working group on the overhaul of the maritime sector, said that Pakistan port operations are not digitally linked to other countries, leading to errors of Massive brings.
According to some sources, these sources have indicated that the data related to “trade with China” in the past five years show differences of 5.5 billions of rupees as digital integration gaps are used to handle the cargo , the manifesto and the declaration.
The figure of 5.5 billions of rupees, he explains, is extrapolated on the basis of sampling data.
The non-numoring of port processes removes the amount of taxes as the undervalued prices of goods are declared in many cases.
This practice is common on goods which are subject to higher taxes, said a source, adding that certain other areas exploited for individual gains by the corrupt mafia include declaration errors, the manipulation of the codes of the harmonized system (HS ) and the lack of integration of systems.
One of the most important problems identified with income deficit and pilering is the lack of digital connectivity required within ports and with the FBR and customs authorities.
Existing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Infrastructure is found by the Task Force As Outdated and Poorly Aligned with Key Businesse and Support Functions, Leading to Reconciliation Errors, Weak Reporting and Minimal Contributions Towards The Core Business of Port Management Acrevany Affecting the Maritime Economy of the country.
The sources disclosed on 32 basic processes, 11 areas are considered essential for the digitization of the port operation with regard to international best practices, but in the case of KPT and PQA, only four and six are digitized.
The 11 essential areas of digitization include the management of ships and traffic, management of goods and containers, garden and doors, allocation and resource management, security / security management / emergencies, monitoring and sustainability of the environment, crew and passenger management, infrastructure and maintenance, invoicing / invoicing / financial operations, communications and stakeholders collaboration and data and analysis.
In the case of Pakistan, according to sources, the declaration of “point of origin” and “declaration of goods” is not compulsory at the time of import. This coupled with the non-deputy of external connectivity and the lack of technological solutions leads to false billing, an error (including diplomatic cargo), money laundering, tax evasion, smuggling and improper use of green channels.
In addition, undervaluation or over-evaluation has an impact on the calculation of taxes withdrawn and tax reimbursements to claim, respectively. To cite a hypothetical example, sources have explained that the import of “carbon steel pipes”, the actual value of which is $ 0.9 per kilogram, but valued at $ 0.69 per kilogram can cause a sub-sub Billing of RS20 million on the consignment of 500 tonnes.
In addition, the handling of HS codes (harmonized system) and the lack of systems provisions help tax evasion.
For example, the deodorant spray whose real evaluated value is $ 4.6 per kilogram remains sensitive to the undeveloping in the allocation of different categories in HS codes to the element due to manipulation or The unmove at the top of the system, leading to an undervaluation and the escape of due tax.
Web One Customs (Weboc) – A declaration and customs clearance system of the goods system – is a computerized customs clearance system on the web developed on the web, which provides automated personalized authorization from the import goods and D ‘export.
However, it is an obsolete system with obsolete hardware and software configurations. Even scanners are not numerically integrated into the evaluation system, the sources have indicated, the addition of non -intrusive inspection also remains delimited by the central system, causing errors, farms and delays.
Financial transactions are also not done digitally through the single Pakistani window, leading to fake practical and escape of enormous taxes (extrapolated data amounting to billions of rupees).
A multitude of problems in the fields of digitization and digital connectivity erod the confidence of investors and the collection of income and the tax collection of investors.
Manual procedures and the absence of technological controls even make the losses of the losses suffered an intimidating challenge, the sources said.
Originally published in The news