"IMPORTANT IRAQ NEWS:AUTOMATION AT BORDER CROSSINGS: HOPE FOR IMPROVING THE ECONOMY AND COMBATING CORRUPTION" BY MNT GOAT, 6 MARCH

AUTOMATION AT BORDER CROSSINGS: HOPE FOR IMPROVING THE ECONOMY AND COMBATING CORRUPTION

Since the fall of the dictatorship in 2003, Iraqis have dreamed of transforming the state system from paper to automation through the electronic governance portal.

Border crossings, customs, and taxation are among the departments that suffer most from corruption and waste, which costs the state treasury huge sums estimated at $7 billion annually.

Hope in the Sudanese government:

The Sudanese government gives hope for implementing the automation system in departments and bodies such as border crossings, customs and tax.

Benefits of implementing an automation system:

Reducing evasion of customs duties and taxes.

Availability of detailed information on import content.

Reducing human interference in monitoring, evaluation and demarcation processes.

Providing a detailed statistical information base on the country’s foreign trade.

Availability of speed in completing customs transactions.

Great countries are role models:

Great countries tend to keep pace with technological progress by following a strategy of reducing expenses and maximizing revenues, and this can only be done by making governance an integral part of the structure of building an institutional state.

Benefits of implementing an automation system in the customs and border ports sector:

Achieving stability, economic leaps, and stability at various levels in the short and long term.

Contributing to reducing the spread of corruption in this joint and cutting the way for waste and tampering with public money.

Protecting the Iraqi state, society, and economy from prohibited, suspicious, and smuggled goods that are unfit for consumption and use.

Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani’s support for the Customs Authority:

This support contributed to achieving a significant and clear leap and improvement in the Authority’s work.

The Authority’s reports in 2023 show an increase in the revenues of some border crossings that implemented a local electronic system.

Implementing an automation system at border crossings, customs and taxation is necessary to improve the economy and combat corruption, and the Sudanese government gives hope in achieving this goal.

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