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BANJA LUKA, August 5 (FENA) - The Indirect Taxation Authority (ITA) is ready for a meeting with shippers from RS to listen to their proposals and opinions with the regards to the customs terminal in Bijeljina. The institution believes that there is no need for blockades.
The freight carriers from RS did not block the Rača border crossing but they protested for an hour in order to keep this customs terminal and to maintain it better.
Head of the ITA Department of Communications and Marketing Ratko Kovačević told FENA that ITA received a request from the shippers oriented towards the Bijeljina Customs office to hold a meeting in connection to a public call published by the ITA for the customs terminal for the needs of the Bijeljina Customs Office.
They say that problems started due to the location of the current customs terminal and the Bijeljina Customs Office.
Over the last few years, numerous media reports have spoken about the ineffectiveness of the customs terminal in Bijeljina, queues at the Rača border crossing because of the long convoy of the trucks on the bridge, which are unable to enter the customs terminal due to narrow space of the terminal.
"We must take into consideration the construction of a new motorway route from Rača via Bijeljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, or Kuzmin-Sremska Rača, Serbia, has been announced, which provides the construction of a border crossing at a different location, as well as changing the passenger route itself and reorganizing the operation of the customs service", said Kovačević.
He pointed out that the funds collected from the use of customs terminals are not assets of the ITA, but that these revenues are paid into the ITA Single Account and are allocated to beneficiaries along with all other indirect tax revenues.
“The ITA cannot use these funds to improve conditions at customs terminals. All of the aforementioned are the reasons for announcing the Public call for building a new customs terminal for the needs of the Customs office in Bijeljina,” stated Ratko Kovačević, the Head of the ITA Department for Communications and Management.
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