Customs Department under the Ministry of Finance of the RL
Public sector
Tax administration, customs activity
The Customs of the Republic of Lithuania receives on average 150,000 import declarations and 330,000 export declarations per year. Today, approx. 98% of all declarations are submitted in electronic form. In total, the amount of customs duties, excise duties and VAT accounted for exceeds 2 billion litas.
*2009 data
Agent: Rymantas Budėnas, Head of the Tax Administration Division of the Customs Department.
Customer benefits:
The Tax Accounting and Control Information System, which ensures the performance of the tax administration and control function, was developed and implemented. The system is currently used by 300 officials and their number is constantly growing.
Centralized management of debts, contributions and payments as well as management of guarantee obligations enabled to simplify and reduce operating expenses for tax payers.
Reference:
“Now we proudly can claim that we are not only the first state institution in Lithuania to implement an automated tax accounting system complying with the EU standards, which uses accrual-based fund accounting, but also in the recognition of our system as the best one”.
The Best Product Awards 2007 organised by InfoBalt, Algis Cibulskas, Deputy Director General of the Customs Department.