SA Revenue Service Customs has put its money where its mouth is with regard to industry engagement and will relaunch its national stakeholder forum later this year.
That was the commitment from chief officer Customs & Excise, Jed Michaletos, when he addressed a packed KPMG auditorium at a joint FTW/JCCI business breakfast in Johannesburg last week on the topic ‘Customs in the 21st century’.
“This is the start of a journey. Customs is committed to working with our stakeholders to deliver on our mandate,” said Michaletos, a mandate that has seen a fundamental shift in Customs administrations worldwide from a traditional regulatory role to economic facilitator of legitimate trade.
“Customs administrations, under the direction of the World Customs Organisation, are continuously seeking the mechanisms to incentivise legitimate trade and thus play an active role in stimulating economic growth and development.
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