Customs and excise duties are often perceived as inevitable costs for organizations and increasingly complex regulations surrounding this area create significant risks. Being non-compliant could disrupt your supply chain and have a severe impact on your competitive edge.

Organizations dealing with customs and excise matters are often confronted with following business issues: 

• How to keep pace with ever changing legislation and the related requirements? 
  
• How to spot and implement customs and excise opportunities and improve your competitive position in the market? 
  
• How to safeguard your operational customs model and avoid goods being blocked and seized or even reputational damage when confronted with non-compliance? 
  
• How to increase supply chain efficiencies to meet your own client’s expectations?
  

KPMG’s Global Trade Customs Practice can offer you a wide range of services, such as: 

• Advice regarding the development and implementation of effective indirect tax management strategies, including implementing appropriate internal controls and assistance with obtaining the AEO (Authorised Economic Operator) status;
  
• Advice regarding the development and implementation of effective indirect tax management strategies, including implementing appropriate internal controls and assistance with obtaining the AEO (Authorised Economic Operator) status;
  
• Assistance with regard to duty planning by making as optimal as possible use of preferential and/or suspension arrangements and simplified procedures; 
  
• Advice regarding determining the proper tariff classification of imported goods; 
  
• Input regarding the validity of your customs value and assistance relating to the search for convergence with your transfer price; 
  
• Advice and guidance relating to excise duties and eco taxes.
  

Benefits

KPMG’s Global Trade Customs Practice can assist you in: 

• Obtaining a competitive edge through establishing a tax efficient structure and/or improving your supply chain control through tailored-made approaches;
• Achieving your business goals by advising on supply chain improvement;
  
• Providing business support in your daily risk management to help comply with highly demanding and ever changing regulatory and security requirements.