Customs Service collected over 539 million lei last week

Chisinau, 5 Sep. /MOLDPRES/- On August 29 -4 September the Customs Service collected over 539 million lei (about 26.9 million euros) from the state budget, up by 7.1% than the budgetary burden established for this period.

According to the service, private people introduced goods whose customs value exceeds the non-taxable limit. Payments of over 15 million lei were collected, which represents 2.8% of the total amount. The money collected from taxpayers is paid directly into the state budget and redistributed for salaries, infrastructure development, social projects etc.

Also, last week, 10,795 customs declarations were completed, and the flow of means of transport was 103,989 crossings.

In terms of the fight against fraud, 62 violations of customs legislation were found in the period and fines of over 199 thousand lei were applied. In August, customs officials established 373 violations and imposed fines of 1,437,567 lei. At the same time, since the beginning of the year, 3,596 cases were found and fines of 12,971,911 lei were applied.

This year, the Customs Service collected about 21.8 billion lei from the state budget, up by 21.9% compared to the same period last year.