Customs Service collected over 686 million lei last week

09:51 | 19.09.2022 Category: Economic

Chisinau, 19 Sep. /MOLDPRES/- On 12-18 September the Customs Service collected over 686.5 million lei to the state budget (about 34.3 million euros), up by 3.5% than the budgetary burden for the period.

According to the Customs Service, private people introduced goods whose value in customs exceeds the non-taxable limit, and payments worth over 17.1 million lei were collected, which represents 2.5% of the total amount collected. The money collected from taxpayers is paid directly into the state budget and redistributed for salaries, infrastructure development, social projects etc.

The past week, 5,977 customs declarations were completed, and the flow of means of transport was 82,281 crossings.

In terms of combating fraud, 57 violations of customs legislation were found and fines of over 209 thousand lei were applied.

Since the beginning of this year, the Customs Service has collected about 23.2 billion lei from the state budget, up by 21.4% compared to the same period last year.

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