Durres Customs has fined the company 5.1m euros for oil tax evasion. Decision No. 626 of the customs authorities have arranged the birth of a customs debt due to the failure to comply with procedures for over 1,032 million pounds of fuel, which was declared under NATO’s tax exemption regime.

According to official documentation provided by customs investigation in the Porto Romano Sector, the company é Salillari had obtained an exemption warrant (Nr. 14695) for importing materials that would serve exclusively for NATO Air Base building project in Kuchova. This legal status allowed goods designated for the base not to be loaded with T VSH, excise or customs tax. 

However, during the search conducted on the ground and verification of the Asiscuda computer system, customs auditers found that for a total of 1.3 million pounds of oil édysel 10ppm, the company had filed no specific exceptions approved by the NATO Support and Procurement Agency ( NSPA). 

Due to the lack of this specific authorisation document at the moment of notification, authorities have considered this amount legally as cheap waste in the free flow.

The original unpaid customs obligation amounted to 156 million dollars, which included 60.4 million excise dollars, 48 million VAT money, 42.7 million income tax and 4.7 million carbon tax dollars. 

After the case was classified as the customs administrative offence conducted in neglect (Nini 252, due to incompatible deadlines and procedures), the subject received a 2-fold legal sanction of the missing obligation, amounting to 312m le le le le le le le le le le le le le. Along with the initial obligation, the total bill the company is charged to pay is 468m, or 5.15m euros. 

Subject representatives have refused to sign the document, claiming in their administrative complaints that customs procedures are invalid as goods are covered by the framework agreement Albania has with NATO. But that claim was rejected by Dogan. /Capital 

Source Layer: Insander