Analysis of Revenues Collected from Customs Operations
Automatically translated summary. The full text is available in Romanian.
This analytical note by Independent Think Tank “Expert-Grup” outlines the basic benchmarks for analysing revenues collected from customs operations in Moldova, their share in total state budget revenues, and a comparison with customs agencies in other countries. It focuses on how multidimensional agency missions affect revenue collection and forecasting.
Customs agencies usually pursue three core objectives: trade facilitation, revenue collection, and the security and safety of goods. Achieving one, such as greater safety, may come at the expense of another, such as trade facilitation. Measuring performance therefore requires triangulating several data sources, including the customs database, Asycuda World modules and foreign trade statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics and the National Bank of Moldova, which carries risks to the accuracy of revenue data.
The note recommends assessing border and customs efficiency with traditional tools, such as the World Customs Organization’s Time Release Study Plus, and with newer sources like GPS data on lorries. It stresses validating data, allocating enough staff and time to interpret it, and ensuring system records are not duplicated or incomplete, for instance when declarations are resubmitted under a different customs regime. The note was produced with NED support.
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