President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has urged equipping the custom department with modern security system in order to identify the interference of irrelevant persons in the affairs of custom, a statement from Presidential Palace said on Saturday. The president…
Revenue of the Customs Department of eastern Nangarhar province has increased following computerization of the department, an official said Monday. The customs department collected 2.5 billion afghanis in the first quarter of the current fiscal year, showing 4.14…
Revenue of the customs department of southern Ghazni province increased by 28 percent over last year’s returns, an official said on Wednesday. Customs Director Mirwais Mirzai in an exclusive interview told Pajhwok Afghan News they had surpassed the…
The southwestern Nimroz province’s customs department has collected more than two billion afghanis in revenue, registering 120 million afghanis increase over last year, officials said on Saturday. Nimroz governor Mohammad Sami told Pajhwok Afghan News the department’s revenue…
KABUL Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) on Tuesday complained the complex tax system, bureaucracy and corruption in customs offices badly affected private sector businesses. ACCI first deputy head Khan Jan Alokozay told a news conference that the complex system…
The Customs Department of southern Kandahar province on Monday said its revenue has increased by 83 percent this year. Customs Director Saleh Mohammad Nikzad told Pajhwok Afghan News they had surpassed the revenue collection target set for…
The revenue of western Nimroz custom has increased by 950 million afghanis ($16.4 million) in the previous solar year, an official said, linking the surge to good governance. Custom Deputy Director Abdul Ghani Turabi told Pajhwok Afghan News…
The government’s revenue reached 109 billion afghanis in 2014, showing an eight percent dip, an official said on Sunday. The target for revenue collection in 2014 had been set 132 billion afghanis, but it could not be achieved…
JALALABAD (PAN): The long-oppressed Sikhs on Wednesday began celebrating Vaisakhi, the holiest day on their religious calendar, in eastern Nangarhar province, where thousands of minority families have been forced into migration over the past three decades. Of the 37,464 Sikh…
JALALABAD (PAN): The customs department head in eastern Nangarhar province on Tuesday rejected the claim that hundreds of millions of afghanis had not been accounted for at the Torkham customs office. In an exclusive interview with Pajhwok Afghan News, Khaleequllah…
KHOST CITY (PAN): Southeastern Khost province’s customs revenue has increased by cent percent during the last nine months of the current Afghan year that started on March 21, officials said on Saturday. The revenue last year stood at 500 million…
KABUL Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) officials on Wednesday claimed corruption was pervasive at customs departments and that government posts were being sold against payments. "We have received this information from customs officials, who told us that were appointed…
