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liveLongNprospa:
Omo
More power to customs for IGR generation

Our Hope is Renewed!

semid4lyfe:
Apologies.

I'm extremely busy offline this period so I'm hardly online. Hence, una go dey get patience for me to unblock your spambotted posts.

@BlueRayDick, and others who have tagged me to unblock their posts.

No problem bro.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Sorry to ask...

Is it the Customs that should determine the value of a package?

If the package was declared $51, why should customs up it to $300?

I'm not asking for agenda oh. I just want to know if that's the norm.[/color]

That's what is being discussed on twitter in the past 3 days. Customs are arbitarily assessing and determining the value of package and charging duties based on whatever value they decide to assign to the package.

You may buy a vehicle for $2.5k online and when Customs wants to charge duty they will arbitarily value the vehicle at say $6k. I've been seeing importers lamenting about this on twitter.

Only God knows if all these is due to Customs focusing too much on revenue generation while paying less attention to other duties like securing our borders, safeguarding national security and facilitating international trade

BlueRayDick:
That's what is being discussed on twitter in the past 3 days. Customs are arbitarily assessing and determining the value of package and charging duties based on whatever value they decide to assign to the package.

You may buy a vehicle for $2.5k online and when Customs wants to charge duty they will arbitarily value the vehicle at say $6k. I've been seeing importers lamenting about this on twitter.

Only God knows if all these is due to Customs focusing too much on revenue generation while paying less attention to other duties like securing our borders, safeguarding national security and facilitating international trade

[color=royalblue]I have never heard of this one before. Na why I dey ask.

That means the Insurance and Customs have different values for the items

If e loss, you get $51
If e no loss, and you wan clear, you pay $300.


Hmmmmm[/color]

BlueRayDick:
That's what is being discussed on twitter in the past 3 days. Customs are arbitarily assessing and determining the value of package and charging duties based on whatever value they decide to assign to the package.

You may buy a vehicle for $2.5k online and when Customs wants to charge duty they will arbitarily value the vehicle at say $6k. I've been seeing importers lamenting about this on twitter.

Only God knows if all these is due to Customs focusing too much on revenue generation while paying less attention to other duties like securing our borders, safeguarding national security and facilitating international trade

Customs needs a reformer like Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo. Which Ministry dem dey under?

semid4lyfe:
Customs needs a reformer like Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo. Which Ministry dem dey under?

Funnily, it is under the ministry of finance; yet it is a paramilitary organization

izzou:
[color=royalblue]I have never heard of this one before. Na why I dey ask.

That means the Insurance and Customs have different values for the items

If e loss, you get $51
If e no loss, and you wan clear, you pay $300.


Hmmmmm[/color]

Me too never hear am before until now .

Below is what people who have experienced it are saying

semid4lyfe:
Apologies.

I'm extremely busy offline this period so I'm hardly online. Hence, una go dey get patience for me to unblock your spambotted posts.

@BlueRayDick, and others who have tagged me to unblock their posts.

Abeg master my moniker

Thank you

Spy360:
Abeg master my moniker

Thank you

✔️

BlueRayDick:
Me too never hear am before until now .

Below is what people who have experienced it are saying

[color=royalblue]No be small groanings we go experience these coming days
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izzou:
[color=royalblue]No be small groanings we go experience these coming days
[/color]

Emir of hardship wan finish everybody 🤦‍♂️

BlueRayDick:
Emir of hardship wan finish everybody 🤦‍♂️

[color=royalblue]Joy is cumming [/color]

Lamba Obi.

The man, the myth, the legend.

One thing we can all agree now,there are no fence sitters and neutrals... Everybody don enter ring.

2015 was the original sin.

Theflint1:
2015 was the original sin.

There are rumors that PDP is planning to field Jonathan as their candidate to come and complete his two terms. They are hoping to sell him to northerners who know there's no legal way he can stay beyond 4 years. I think that was what Jerry Gana was hinting at when he suggested they even have candidate that will best Peter Obi .

My opinion is if Jonathan lose guard and buys into the proposal, he will only help Tinubu secure second term easily. Not only that, he will open himself to serious nasty media attacks from the agbado camp so much that the little prestige he got from conceding the result of 2015 elections; he will lose everything in a twinkle of an eye.

To whom it may concern

😩😩

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Sorry to ask...

Is it the Customs that should determine the value of a package?

If the package was declared $51, why should customs up it to $300?

I'm not asking for agenda oh. I just want to know if that's the norm.[/color]

My guy nor fit believe wetin e dey read.

Lmao
Even apc star boy supporter wey Oasisx dey collect content from on Twitter dey complain about the issue😂.

We are finished

Segedinho:
To whom it may concern

😩😩

Airmark go leave the customs issue quote this one.

liveLongNprospa:
Airmark go leave the customs issue quote this one.

😂😂

BlueRayDick:
That's what is being discussed on twitter in the past 3 days. Customs are arbitarily assessing and determining the value of package and charging duties based on whatever value they decide to assign to the package.

You may buy a vehicle for $2.5k online and when Customs wants to charge duty they will arbitarily value the vehicle at say $6k. I've been seeing importers lamenting about this on twitter.

Only God knows if all these is due to Customs focusing too much on revenue generation while paying less attention to other duties like securing our borders, safeguarding national security and facilitating international trade

Is customs supposed to focus on revenue generation? That's the important question

liveLongNprospa:
Is customs supposed to focus on revenue generation? That's the important question

Unfortunately that’s one of the anomalies that ought to be corrected since we returned to democracy but hasn’t been done.

It was during the military era they placed customs within the purview of finance ministry . That’s why they focus so much on revenue generation and neglect other duties of customs service .

I’m not sure of customs of other countries like the UK, US, etc place so much focus on revenue generation like ours do

This is why Peter Obi stands out and the best option for now.

His empathy

https://x.com/PeterObi/status/1953027916465320312?t=A7S7IdPjU8bXDnu3zxtNrA&s=19

We cannot be fixing airports (which actually is intended for stealing) when we are facing a hunger crisis.

Devils in power

OasisX:


.....current Obidients are 2.0. When he was Governor, he had 1.0 version. LOL!

One even warned me not to mention his moniker while posting here again. I wanted to block him but later decided to continue reading his wailings as the deceiver he wants as President, gets exposed.

Spy360:
This is why Peter Obi stands out and the best option for now.

His empathy

https://x.com/PeterObi/status/1953027916465320312?t=A7S7IdPjU8bXDnu3zxtNrA&s=19

We cannot be fixing airports (which actually is intended for stealing) when we are facing a hunger crisis.

Devils in power

Peter Obi and Empathy?

Those water corporation workers he refused to pay their salaries for 7 years, were they not hungry because of Obi's wickedness? 232 workers even died while waiting for their salaries.

Why are you Obidients so heartless?

Segedinho, livelongnprospa pls confirm this from OasisX.

BlueRayDick:
Unfortunately that’s one of the anomalies that ought to be corrected since we returned to democracy but hasn’t been done.

It was during the military era they placed customs within the purview of finance ministry . That’s why they focus so much on revenue generation and neglect other duties of customs service .

I’m not sure of customs of other countries like the UK, US, etc place so much focus on revenue generation like ours do

That is how it is in a lot of countries.

Customs in the UK is under Treasury Department and Customs in the US too was under Treasury Department until the Department of Homeland Security was created during the peak of the war on terror.

Customs Department primary role historically has always been to generate funds for the government.

Their focus might be less now though compared to us as they have more revenue streams.

airmark:
Segedinho, livelongnprospa pls confirm this from OasisX.

I nor talk am Segedinho.
Airmark nor care about naija.
As far as Tinubu continue to messop the naira so that the exchange rate go make 1 cad = 1120. That's all😁.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Sorry to ask...

Is it the Customs that should determine the value of a package?

If the package was declared $51, why should customs up it to $300?

I'm not asking for agenda oh. I just want to know if that's the norm.[/color]

its complicated

because as a naija matter people would undervalue items they are bringing in as a matter of course

the problem is how value is measured

eg - i will never buy a pc brand new - i usually buy manufacturer refurbished

by doing that i would pay maybe 50% of the shelf price.

that is how i have ordered pcs online since 20010

but will customs believe if i tell them that this system price is not $2500, but $ 1200? when they can check it directly on lenovo website? - more so when your average nigerian PC seller will bu manufacturer refurb/open box and sell as brand new?

unfortunately, as far as i can tell the rates customs charges are opaque so no one knows what is actually what.

and nigerians and theri own dodght practices

i replaced my laptop battery and it did not have lenovo on it. i challenged the seller. i said it was a fake battery he sold. he then explained that to get the battery past customs they had to rebrand it. [not sure if he meant chinese customs or naija customs]

it is likely they are also being called out.

as an aside, customs in brazil go hard. you no fit buy ps5 for that side if you are not seriously loaded

afrodoc:
That is how it is in a lot of countries.

Customs in the UK is under Treasury Department and Customs in the US too was under Treasury Department until the Department of Homeland Security was created during the peak of the war on terror.

Customs Department primary role historically has always been to generate funds for the government.

Their focus might be less now though compared to us as they have more revenue streams.

Oh really? I didn't know this.

Thank you for the clarification.

BlueRayDick:
Oh really? I didn't know this.

Thank you for the clarification.

Yeah it seems a bit unusual.

The strangest one was US Secret Service was under Department of Treasury before Department of Homeland Security was established.