Customs officers are ‘collecting taxes and not extorting money’

[geovalin]

Tbuong Khmum Provincial Customs Department director yesterday refuted allegations that his officers are trying to extort money from traders at border checkpoints and clarified that the money collected is for the taxes they have to pay for the goods imported into the Kingdom.

 

Muy Panharith said that neither he nor the customs officers had pressured any traders or truck drivers to give them between $140 and $250 per truck to cross the border each trip every day. At the Cambodia-Vietnam border checkpoint at Doung 7 Memot district in Tboung Khmum province, he added they have a list of prices for goods and the tax they have to pay if they carried more than the amount which is untaxable.

 

“We are just doing our jobs. If we have to impose a tax on the goods that need to be taxed, then we have to do it. It’s their duty to pay the taxes,” said Panharith who was clarifying an allegation raised by a local trader in the province that Customs officers were putting pressure on them to give between $140 and $250 per truck when ferrying goods across the border.

 

read more https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501022140/customs-officers-are-collecting-taxes-and-not-extorting-money/

 

[LarrySR]

I had a package delivery and the shipper couldn't give me a receipt for the full amount I paid. 

[Henryford]

What like Joe Ferrari?

[Liverpool Lou]

18 minutes ago, LarrySR said:

I had a package delivery and the shipper couldn't give me a receipt for the full amount I paid. 

For goods being transported between Vietnam and Cambodia as per the OP?

[Liverpool Lou]

11 minutes ago, Henryford said:

What like Joe Ferrari?

He was moving cars between Vietnam and Cambodia, was he?