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Although measures have been put in place to revolutionise the services offered by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), Commissioner General, Mr Khurshid Sattaur,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, is convinced that there are yet persons who are bent on trying to outsmart the system.He was at the time referring to moves by some individuals to import commercial items as personal effects.Commissioner General, Khurshid SattaurHe explained during an interview that some revolutionary changes were made in the administrative procedure as these relate to the importation of items. These changes now allow for a smoother system.“We have separated commercial items from personal effects and we have put a wonderful system in place that expedites personal effects…Of course there are some people who still want to be smart and bring their commercial importation as personal effects,” Sattaur disclosed.However, he assured that GRA has strategic measures in place to deal with such situations. “I don’t want to say how (publicly) because these are sensitive matters but we have been dealing with them effectively. We have been finding out about those people who have been bringing their commercial imports disguised as personal effects and we have been dealing with them,Wholesale Hockey Jerseys China,” Sattaur insisted.Once caught making a false declaration, the GRA boss said, persons are in fact faced with a very severe penalty.  The existing system, he explained, is in place to facilitate all including the ordinary citizens of the country who sometimes have to depend on a barrel or personal consignment of goods made available by overseas-based relatives.Sattaur said, “We find it unconscionable of people to be using that system to engage in business.”As part of its quest to improve the system, Sattaur said that GRA has entirely removed the function of goods examination as it relates to the importation of small items. He noted though that GRA has the prerogative to determine through a random selection process or risk profiling system that an examination should take place.Turning his attention to large items, the Commissioner General said that GRA has taken out altogether this examination mandate that was once required of Customs.This process,Cheap NFL Jerseys, he explained, has now devolved into a new section which is called the Goods Examination Unit.“That is a separate unit outside of the management of Customs and I think it has worked wonderfully well…Customs does not do examinations,”The Goods Examination Unit is complemented by another novel idea introduced by GRA which is called the Lottery. The Lottery System, Sattaur said, is one where a computer automatically determines on a weekly basis which containers that come through the system would need an examination. This,Nike Shox Gravity 2018, he said,Cheap Jerseys Online, is done under the watchful eyes of Customs officials and others within other relevant units of the GRA who are trained in such undertakings.Sattaur said that the Private Sector is also invited to be a part of this critical activity in order to ensure that there is full transparency in the process.“I think a lot of countries should look at these systems because they help to significantly improve on transaction time and expediting business in this country. A lot of times these things are not heard about …people just want to turn a blind eye to them but there have been massive changes that have helped with the clearance of goods at the wharves, expediting of the entry processing of document and therefore rendered Guyana a country that is very business friendly,” asserted the Commissioner General.He is confident that the implementation of the various measures and even more by GRA could in fact serve to halt the root cause of corruption which has the potential of undermining the system and force people to be more transparent.According to Sattaur, transparency is not only confined to the work of GRA but also to taxpayers, some of whom,Cheap Jerseys Online, do not take pride in keeping records, fail to adhere to systems and who are of the view that bribery to expedite a process would not see them being caught eventually.“We have our ways and means of detecting those kinds of individuals and those types of transactions,” Sattaur warned.