POST CLEARANCE AUDIT (CAO-1-2019) Flashcards
Shall refer to persons authorized to bring imported goods into Free Zones, such as the sez and free ports.
Locators
Shall refer to the use of insufficient or wrong desrciption of goods or the use of erroneous tariff heading.
Misclassification
Shall refer to false, untruthful, erroneous or inaccurate declaration as to quantity, quality, description, weight, or measurement of goods.
Misdeclaration
Shall refer to failure to exercise reasonable care and competence, through act or acts of ommission or commission, in ensuring tha a statement made is correct resulting in a deficiency in taxes and duties paid.
Negligence
Shall refer to an office created under Executive Order No. 160 s. 2003, as amended by EO No. 46 s. 2017, mandated to conduct audit of importers, locators, and all parties engaged in customes clearance and processing.
Post Clearance Audit Group
When the Bureau may conduct audit examination, inspection, verification, and investigation or records pertaining to goods declaration.
Within 3 years from the date of FINAL payment of duties and taxes or Customs Clearance.
Period of limitation of assessment.
In the absence of fraud, it shall be conclusive upon all parties 3 years from the date of final payment of duties and taxes or upon completion of post clearance audit.
Who are the entities required to keep records.
Importer, Broker, and Locators
Composition of PCAG.
PCAG is headed by Assistant Commissioner
Units:
PCAG Trade and Information Risk Analysis Office(TIRAO)
PCAG Compliance Assessment Office (CAO)
-Each shall be headed by Director
Entity authorized to determine the number of personnel requirements of PCAG and issue necessary order to reassign the required organic personnel of BOC to the group.
The Commissioner with the approval of the Secretary of Finance
Shall refer to a program based on international best customs practice, authorizing the Commissioner of Customs to accept, as a potential mitigating factor, prior disclosure by Importer of errors and ommissions in goods declaration resulting in deficiency in duties and taxes on past importations.
Prior Disclosure Program
Shall refer to a plea for the re-evaluation of the audit findings on the basis of existing records without need of additional evidence.
Reconsideration of Audit Findings
Shall refer to a plea for the re-evaluation of the audit findings on the basis of newly discovered or additional evidence intended to be presented in the reinvestigation.
Reinvestigation of Audit Findings
PCAG-TIRAO stands for?
Trade Information and Risk Analysis Office
PCAG-CAO stands for?
Compliance Assessment Office
One of the functions of PCAG-TIRAO is to review available trade data to determine compliance marker of industry and set benchmark for the purpose of developing an audit program.
Of whose approval they will need?
Commissioner’s approval
PCAG-TIRAO in coordination with Management Information System and Technology Group shall develop a computer-aided risk based management system, the parameters of which are to be based on objective and quantifiable data for use in the profiling and identification of potential priority audit candidate based on the approved audit program.
Of whose approval they will need?
Subject to the approval of the SOF upon recommendation of Commissioner
Preparation of audit work plan, scope and approach for the audit candidates is one of the functions of which entity?
PCAG-CAO