Welcome to the Vanuatu Department of Customs and Inland Revenue (DCIR) Newsroom. This section includes a wide variety of news from DCIR including media releases and publications.
The implementation of ASYCUDA World in Vanuatu is more than a modernization project. It is an opportunity to bring about further reform to Vanuatu Customs to efficiently meet its national objectives of collecting revenue, protecting borders and facilitating trade. This week we bring you two of the major reforms currently being carried out in Vanuatu Customs.
In a press statement issued by the Ministers for Internal Affairs and Finance, they have announced the outcomes of Council of Ministers Decision 18 of 2016, to transfer the Immigration primary line function from the Vanuatu Immigration Service (VIS), within the Department of Internal Affairs to the Department of Customs and Inland Revenue (DCIR).
The Value Added Tax (VAT) Office (Inland Revenue Division) and the Department of Finance and Treasury had entered into an understanding to work in collaboration to recover debts owed to the State in Value Added Tax (VAT) as endorsed by Council of Minster’s (COM) Decision 101 of 2016.
The workshop was conducted on the 4th of August 2016 by officials from both the Department of Environment and the Department of Customs & Inland Revenue and comes as a refresher to a similar one that had been conducted in 2015.
Customs finds 2,938 cigarette packets concealed in 14 galvanized bars.
By Jane Joshua (http://dailypost.vu/)
The Supreme Court in Luganville, Santo, last Friday sentenced 39-year-old Luganville businessman and Chinese national of Fujian province, Ruiqi Yao.
