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The Post Clearance Audit Group of the Bureau of Customs took in almost P838 million in the first half of 2022
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The collection arose from 64 Prior Disclosure Program Applications and from the issuance of 121 Audit Notice Letters from January to June 2022
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An additional collection of P13.647 billion is expected from post-clearance audits conducted in 2019, 2020, and 2021 which have become final and executory
The Bureau of Customs Post Clearance Audit Group (PCAG) collected a total of P837,969,590.80 in the first half of 2022, the BOC said in a statement.
The collection was derived from 64 Prior Disclosure Program Applications or PDP (which netted P683,956,393.99) and from 121 Audit Notice Letters or ANLs (P154,013,196.87) issued from January to June 2022, PCAG said in its semi-annual accomplishment report.
Furthermore, BOC expects an additional collection of P13.647 billion from the enforcement of 67 demand letters — arising from post-clearance audits conducted in 2019, 2020, and 2021 — which have become final and executory for failure of audited importers to contest the same.
In the first quarter of the year, PCAG collected P534.292 million in additional revenues.
Of the total, P498.882 million came from 39 PDP applications and P35.410 million from 59 ANL issued by PCAG.
BOC said it expects to take in a total of P12.932 billion from the enforcement of 54 demand letters arising from post clearance audits conducted in 2019, 2020, and 2021, which have become final and executory for failure of audited importers to contest the same.
The BOC took over again in 2016 the function of post-clearance audit, formerly called post-entry audit, from the Department of Finance, where the function was transferred in 2014.
In 2018, PCAG began welcoming applications to PDP and, in early 2019, started sending out ANLs with the release of Customs Administrative Order No. 01-2019, which implemented BOC’s post-clearance audit function.
