- The Dutch Customs (Douane) will focus on several themes in 2024, including legal protection and human scale, combating undermining crime, revising the Customs Union, dialogue with the Customs Business Community, enforcing sanctions against Russia and Belarus, excise fraud, actor-oriented approach to e-commerce, ensuring customs information is in order, digital transformation, and privacy.
- The Customs also identifies some challenges, such as a lack of qualified staff, personnel safety and integrity, a significant increase in the number of declarations leading to enforcement issues, and the need for the Netherlands to pay Traditional Own Resources (TEM) and delay interest to the EU.
Source: taxence.nl
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