Seizures at Belem Airport increase 25% in 1 year, financial income tax auditors | The economy
In recent months, the rise of the movement of Belem International Airport has brought an additional challenge to the IRS team working at the terminal. According to the concession North Amazonia airports (NOA), In 2024, Belem reached, the first time a sign of 4.1 million passengers worked between January and December. With this increase in international and national flights, the inspection of Allawode goods has intensified in the last 12 months, with revenue auditors reported that in the last year, the growth of irrelevant products in the last year.
The main feature of over 4 million passengers passing through Wal-D Kos airport is a 12% growth in 2024 compared to the flow of 2023. With this height, Bruno Light, Tax Auditor and Representative of Belem rituals, IRS, said that the growing amount of products were not observed. He believes that the purpose of the income is beyond the tax collection: “Our character is to protect the national economy and prevent exploitation competition, keep the irregular products from damaging the official market and ensure that the population does not reach the population hands.”
Products that are mainly captured
In products that are mostly retained by IRS at Belem Airport, electronics are leading the list, especially the state -of -art smartphones. “We have cases that passengers have brought up to 400 cell phones at once, which configures illegal trade and can cause significant damage to the national industry,” Light said.
According to the inspection, the illegal re -ALE sale of these devices directly affects official trade and tax collection. “The irregular import is legally operating, paying taxes and earning jobs,” the Lite explained.
In addition to cell phones, designer bags are often found in seizures. Called “madam bags”, some of these pieces cost between $ 80,000 and $ 1 million. “We have already seized passengers who bring these four bags, in the total R $ 400 thousand irregular items,” Lite said. He emphasized that the tax on these products could exceed 000 150,000, and this value is trying to avoid many passengers.
Other items that are often retained include electronics such as brand dresses, imported shoes, perfumes and notebooks and smartwatches. Products of animals and vegetable origin without sanitary verification are also prohibited, in the case of recent passengers, as tried to bring a fish from Surinam without proper cooling.
The destination of goods
When a product is seized, the passenger is likely to sort the situation by paying taxes. If the officer does not pay the taxes to pay, the goods are in a process called damage, which gives 90 days for protection and can be sent to the auction operated by the IRS every quarter.
“The auction is very crowded and often the products are auctioned for seven times more values than the initial bid,” Lite said. He stressed that increased resources in auction will return to the country in the form of investments in important sectors such as health, education and security.
In the case of captured passengers, the IRS carries products in quantities allowed without allowing without declaration, from losing the fine to the fine application. In cases of large quantities of 400 cell phones, the situation can be designed to smuggle the situation, bringing the case to the federal prosecutor to start criminal proceedings.
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According to the IRS Tax Auditor Weltor Mendis, the seizures at Belem International Airport recorded a 25% growth in the last year. “This growth reflects both the intensity of the inspection to prevent the growth and manipulation of the movement in the terminal,” said Mendis, but this data is yet to be resolved, but the observation of the customs daily in the fruit Belim.
According to NOA, international flights have achieved significant growth. In 2024, nearly 187,000 passengers entered 1,657 international flights, resulting in a passenger movement by 50% and international flights 63%.
With physical expansion and major flow, the airport has recorded a large movement of international flights, especially for the United States and neighboring countries. Currently, there are daily international activities, there are peaks on Wednesdays and Saturdays, up to four flights at the terminal. The increase in demand increases the work of the inspection team, which has 20 to 30 fixed agents, this number will be reinforced with a large stream waiting for 2025. “An increase of up to 50% of our suggestion staff, at least 15 new agents to strengthen surveillance at the event,” said Deputy Bruno Leat.
