New Zealand Customs Service

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New Zealand Customs Service
Māori : Te Mana Ārai O Aotearoa
Jurisdiction Entry and exit control of people and goods
legal form Public Service Department
Legal basis Customs and Excise Act 2018
Headquarters Wellington
Establishment date January 5, 1840
minister Jenny Salesa
since November 28, 2019
Employee 1 317
As of June 30, 2019
budget NZ $ 203.233 million
as of June 30, 2019
Website : www.customs.govt.nz
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The New Zealand Customs Service (NZCS), in Māori Te Mana Ārai O Aotearoa , is a Public Service Department in New Zealand responsible for the control of New Zealand's external borders with regard to inbound / outbound travelers and goods import / export responsible is.

history

The New Zealand Customs Service gives his date of origin of January 5, 1840, and the year in which the Treaty of Waitangi between the British Crown and 45  Chief s of various Māori was closed -Klans the country. At that time New Zealand was still part of New South Wales as a colony . A year later the Custom Department was placed directly under the control of the Lord Commissioner of the Treasury of the United Kingdom .

Customs was temporarily abolished in New Zealand on September 30, 1844, as the government imposed a tax on all property and income of its citizens, but left it to them in good faith to assess their own taxes. But after the tax revenue collapsed, the governor at the time reintroduced customs duties in April 1845.

In 1858 a Commissioner of Customs was first appointed, who today would be comparable to a minister, and in 1913 the Customs Act 1913 was passed , which created the legal basis of the Customs Department . The Customs Act 1966 followed in 1966 and the Customs Act 1996 in 1996 , which changed the name of the department to New Zealand Customs Service . In 2018, the legal basis for the New Zealand Customs Service was changed again with the Customs and Excise Act 2018 and has been in effect since then.

minister

Jenny Salesa from the New Zealand Labor Party has been theMinister in charge ofthe New Zealand Customs Service since June 28, 2019.

tasks and goals

The task of the New Zealand Customs Service is on the one hand to carry out import and export controls at seaports and airports as well as to control the payment of customs duties and the Goods and Services Tax and to collect their fees and on the other hand to prevent prohibited goods such as drugs To import and control weapons or biological products that could endanger nature in New Zealand and to prevent the export of plants or animals that are subject to conservation or for which there are no permits.

literature

  • New Zealand Customs Service (Ed.): Annual Report 2019 . 2019, ISSN  1174-3654 (English, Online [PDF; 2.8 MB ; accessed on July 23, 2020]).

Web links

  • Homepage . New Zealand Customs Service,accessed July 23, 2020.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Customs and Excise Act 2018 . New Zealand Customs Service , accessed July 23, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Annual Report 2019 . 2019, p.  35 .
  3. ↑ Annual Report 2019 . 2019, p.  68 .
  4. ↑ a b c d Our History . New Zealand Customs Service , accessed July 23, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Hon. Jenny Salesa . New Zealand Parliament , June 16, 2020, accessed July 23, 2020 .
  6. ↑ What_we_do . New Zealand Customs Service , accessed July 23, 2020 .