124 companies investigated, case value 22 billion! A customs declaration form leads to the ultimate big case...

The peak season for foreign trade has arrived, and logistics has also entered a high-pressure season. Customs and police in various places have begun to strictly investigate and crack down on violations of laws and regulations!

Recently, Zhejiang police uncovered a shocking case of forged customs declarations, uncovering a behind-the-scenes industry chain with a total amount of up to 22 billion yuan involved!

It is understood that there are a total of 124 companies involved, all in Jieyang, Guangdong, mainly engaged in plastic toy business! They defrauded huge amounts of state export tax rebates by purchasing customs declarations, forging foreign exchange certificates, and issuing false value-added tax invoices.

The police arrested a vice president of a toy association, who was an influential person in the local area. In name, he had an actual company, but privately he also had six or seven "shell companies". In one year, one of his companies defrauded export tax rebates of more than 10 million!

After receiving the foreign exchange, these Jieyang companies settle the funds into the legal representative's account, then transfer it to the transit account, and finally transfer it to underground banks or merchants in Yiwu through large distribution accounts.

The task force found the underground banks in Yiwu corresponding to these gangs. Thus, three "Jieyang-Yiwu" criminal chains were discovered.

124 shell companies defrauded 22 billion yuan. These foreign trade speculators are lawless! It is precisely because of this phenomenon that the customs inspection is more difficult and affects our normal customs clearance!

Many friends have questions, why sometimes the goods are held up by customs for such a long time and not released? It is very likely that they have encountered a customs inspection!

At present, the whole country has uniformly implemented integrated customs declaration. The customs declaration requirement is that the same port vehicle uses the same cargo list number, and all the goods in the vehicle can be loaded and transported to the port only after they are released.

For general trade export goods that pass through the port through carpooling, the name, brand, model, quantity and other related declaration elements provided by the customer must be consistent with the actual goods.

In Shenzhen, if the inspection is consistent with the actual declaration, the vehicle will be cleared after the customs release. If the inspection is inconsistent, the inspection department will directly detain the vehicle, seal the customs and hand it over to the Huanggang Comprehensive Department for unsealing. If the amount involved is more than 20,000 yuan, it will be handed over to the anti-smuggling department for handling, with a minimum fine of 5,000 yuan, and then wait for the customs to handle it later.

What does the customs check most? The core is to check whether the declaration form and the goods are consistent! The declaration form is the customs declaration form, and the goods are the goods. Specifically, the type, specification, quantity, weight, etc. of the goods must be checked against the declared information to see if they are consistent.

After the customs inspection is completed, those that should be released will be released, those that should pay tax will pay tax, and those that should be transferred to the anti-smuggling department will be transferred to the anti-smuggling department, and the inspection work is completed.

How to improve customs clearance efficiency and avoid customs inspections?

Customs cargo inspection has always been divided into manual inspection and machine inspection. Just yesterday, China Customs announced that the new generation of inspection system will be launched at the weekend, and two points were particularly emphasized!

In recent years, the trend of export compliance is obvious, so customs inspections are becoming more frequent. In addition to Chinese customs, foreign customs have also stepped up their actions, especially for goods from China!

The Netherlands used to be a holy land for double-clearance and tax package in Europe, because the Netherlands can delay tax payment, and the delay period is 3 months. Previously, a BBC reporter went undercover in a Chinese B2B seller and purchased a batch of Bluetooth speakers, and then found a logistics company, saying that it would ship the goods to the UK.

Then the logistics company staff provided the "undercover" with a so-called "tax avoidance plan" - double clearing and tax package. The logistics company said that they could put this batch of Bluetooth speakers among other large quantities of goods, depart from Hong Kong, go to the Netherlands, and then ship from the Netherlands to the FBA warehouse in the UK. The seller only needs to pay import tariffs in the process, but no import VAT.

Once this kind of "tax avoidance" behavior is discovered, the offender will face huge fines and legal liability!

Currently, both at home and abroad, the problem of tax evasion is being cracked down. Whether it is a B-end seller or a C-end seller, they should have a balance on tax issues to avoid "reasonable tax avoidance" turning into "tax evasion"!

We also hope that freight forwarding friends will strengthen their follow-up of new policies and control of risks during the peak export period, carefully check each batch of goods, and sell well with sellers during the peak season!