Officers of the Indirect Tax Administration at the Šamac Customs Office confiscated 18,000 kg of potatoes that were tried to be smuggled into Bosnia and Herzegovina.
At the customs office in Šamac, the importer declared a shipment of red onions in the amount of 23,000 kg for import customs clearance. During the inspection of the attached documentation, doubts were expressed about the type and quantity of the goods, and a detailed inspection of the shipment was started, after which it was determined that in addition to the regularly declared goods, there were also goods in the truck for which no import customs documentation was attached, announced the UIOBiH.
The undeclared goods were hidden in such a way that red onions were loaded on the last four pallets, and in the rest of the shipment, in the depth of the cargo space that cannot be accessed without detailed unloading, 18 pallets of table potatoes with a total weight of 18,000 kg were found. It is assumed that the exchange of goods was carried out due to the fact that when importing potatoes from EU countries to BIH, an additional tax in the amount of 0.10 BAM per kilogram is paid, which is not charged when importing red onions.
The person who committed the customs violation accepted responsibility, a violation order was issued, and the goods were permanently confiscated and will be sold at a public auction organized by the ITA.
The Directorate for Indirect Taxation of BiH invites all citizens to report any form of customs or VAT evasion, or illegal sale of excise goods, to the open line 080 02 06 07. All calls are free and completely anonymous, Fena reports.
