Luanda - The Angolan Customs Department collected 5.2 billion US dollars in the first six years of its functional and structural reform, which started in 2000.

 
This was revealed last Tuesday, in Luanda, by Nicolas Neto, a technician of the institution, during a seminar on the Angolan state’s revenue system reform, designed for journalists.

The source explained that as fruit of this strategy the revenue has been increasing gradually, therefore in 2000 the Customs Department got 215.4 million dollars in the pre-reform phase.

Among the main results of this reform are the enlargement of the taxation base, the implementation of new technologies in computing area, the simplification of the tasks, the updating and rationalisation of the legislation and a better international co-operation.