Meeting of Customs Administrations of BiH and Slovenia

In Banja Luka today, an exchange of data was agreed upon between the Indirect Taxation Authority and the Financial Administration of the Republic of Slovenia within the framework of further bilateral cooperation between these two tax-customs administrations, reports the Patria News Agency.

This is the result of a joint meeting held today at the Indirect Taxation Authority building in Banja Luka, attended by Miro Džakula, Director of the ITA, and Jana Ahčin, Acting Director of the Financial Administration of the Republic of Slovenia.

The bilateral meeting of the directors of the financial administrations was held within the framework of the Management Board meeting of the Twinning Project "Further Harmonization of Customs and Taxation with EU Practices and Legislation", funded by the European Union and implemented by experts from Slovenia and Austria.

Within the Twinning Project, which will be completed in January 2015, a new Law on Customs Policy of BiH, currently in parliamentary procedure, will be finalized, and subordinate acts on implementing regulations are being completed. In addition, instructions for filling out the JCI have been prepared, and a new VAT Law has been drafted.

Workshops dedicated to establishing the Risk Analysis Department and the Internal Audit Department within the ITA have been completed. As part of this project, the E VAT web portal for electronic submission of VAT returns has been completed and has already been tested with 100 large taxpayers in BiH.

The Director of the ITA, Miro Džakula, also held a meeting today with Nicholas Hill, Chargé d'Affaires of the US Embassy in BiH.