Fight against corruption results in 19% increase in Nangarhar’s customs revenues
Officials have reported an increase of 19% in Nangarhar’s customs revenues over the first quarter of the current Afghan fiscal year.
They hope the figure would double by the end of the this year.
The hike in the revenues is linked to effective measures taken to fight corruption and smuggling of goods.
“We have prevented smuggling of goods and appointed vigilance officers to keep a tab on the commercial goods and those goods that evade customs duty,” Tolo News quotes Ghulam Farooq Momand, the Executive Officer of the Nangarhar Customs Department.
Owed to its proximity to Pakistan, Turkham port is the most active in Nangarhar and witnesses a disproportionately higher amount of trade activity compared to other ports.
Revenue figure stands at 471,299,278 AFN during the current financial year.
According to Tolo News, the Afghan government plans to build a new, better equipped building in addition to the existing one for the Nangarhar Customs Department in a bid to further increase trade activity in the province.
Related Articles
Afghan cement factories to be put up for bidding
Three major Afghan cement companies will be put out for bidding by the end of the March, said the Ministry
Afghanistan prints 200bn Afghani banknotes
The Central Bank announced Sunday that 200bn Afghani banknotes are newly printed in accordance to the market demand. First Deputy
New education facilities open in Kunduz
The Afghan-German cooperation handed over three newly constructed buildings to the local government in Kunduz province: two schools in Dashti
