Entrepreneurs in Poland frequently gotta deal with unclear and even ridiculous regulations. An example of this is the situation relating to the customs declaration. He described it in item on his profile LinkedIn patron Mateusz Ostrowski, and closer to the full case was "Gazeta Wyborcza".
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What is the punishment for an incorrect customs declaration? The shipment of goods was stopped by a misset comma
The client of Counselor Ostrowski has been moving a tiny company for 17 years, where 12 people presently work. The entrepreneur late started working with a German contractor and wanted to send him the goods, which active the request to complete the customs declaration. Unfortunately, at this stage, he made a mistake resulting in an avalanche of complications. alternatively of "steel profile, galvanized," he wrote "profile, galvanized steel".
Same stuff. The same producer. But for the system... it's different stuff. Customs didn't accept the call. Transport stopped. An investigation procedure has been launched
- reads the account of Mateusz Ostrowski. As a result, 80 1000 gold penalties were imposed on a man for making a mistaken customs declaration. Worse still, further cooperation with the German company was called into question due to delays in delivery. The punishment itself was yet withdrawn, but it was not without another losses.
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The investigation procedure had serious effects on the trader. Kara was withdrawn, but there were another consequences
Mateusz Ostrowski reported that his client had recovered the money, but it was not an easy task.
They didn't aid the translation. A hard appeal, legal arguments, a small force and... a fewer weeks of work helped.
- compose a lawyer. The goods themselves yet went to a client from Germany, but he resigned from another order in the same period for fear of being delayed again. Ostrowski emphasizes that this communicative is for him "another proof that Polish entrepreneurs are playing a game whose rules cannot be predicted". Anna Wincencik, erstwhile CEO of the single-use medical devices industry, who frequently faced customs controls, is of the same opinion. According to her, akin cases distance Poland from countries where entrepreneurs are actually supported. She besides criticized the customsman's reaction to this situation.
Even if the strategy didn't admit the goods, due to the fact that the comma in the declaration has fooled the algorithm, the function of a customs authoritative - so far a surviving professional in his field - should be to return the application for correction alternatively than initiating a procedure paralyzing the work of a small, honest entrepreneur
- said Wincencik in an interview with "Election". The paper besides requested a comment from the Ministry of Finance. The hotel indicated that it does not know the details of the case, so it cannot address it. At the same time, he admitted that if an mistake in the customs declaration is identified at the reception stage, the notifier should request the competent authority to correct it as shortly as possible.
If, as a consequence of the verification of the declaration, it has been found to be incorrect, resulting in underselling import duties, the customs authority shall find those duties at the correct amount. This is not a punishment, but only a determination of the correct amount of these charges
- explains the Ministry of Finance, quoted by "Electoral".
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