{"id":77170,"date":"2018-01-26T08:01:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T08:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/18-percent-increase-in-herat-s-customs-revenue\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:32:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T10:32:32","slug":"18-percent-increase-in-herat-s-customs-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/18-percent-increase-in-herat-s-customs-revenue\/","title":{"rendered":"18 percent increase in Herat s customs revenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"386\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2018\/1- jan\/26\/\u0631\u06cc\u06cc\u0633 \u06af\u0645\u0631\u06a9 \u0647\u0631\u0627\u062a \u062f\u0631 \u06af\u0641\u062a\u06af\u0648_Copy1.jpg\" width=\"687\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13.33px; text-align:justify\">HERAT (SW): Officials in Herat said that the customs&rsquo; revenue of Herat has increased by 18% since last year. According to the officials, the fight against corruption and the prevention of smuggled goods are among the reasons for the increase in the revenue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13.33px; text-align:justify\">Mohammad Noor Rahmani, head of Herat Customs told Salam Watandar that the agency&rsquo;s income in the fiscal year 2017-2018 amounted to 20 billion and 155 million AFN, while in the fiscal year 2016-2017 the revenue generated was only 16 billion and 700 million AFN in total, representing an increase of 18 percent this year in comparison to previous year.<\/p>\n<p data-keeper-edited=\"yes\" style=\"margin:0px 0px 13.33px; text-align:justify\">Jilani Farhad, spokesperson for the governor of Herat said that eradicating corruption from Herat&rsquo;s customs administration has been the reason for added revenue this year. &ldquo;Fighting the root causes of corruption will reduce the corruption and simultaneously increase government revenues&rdquo;, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13.33px; text-align:justify\">However, Jawad Amid, a civil society activist in Herat, expressed concern about the existence of corruption in the customs&rsquo; agency of Herat, saying that 18 percent increase is a nominal progress and Herat&rsquo;s custom has higher capacity generating more revenues if corruption is removed altogether. <span style=\"margin:0px\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13.33px; text-align:justify\">Earlier, President Ashraf Ghani expressed his concern about the widespread corruption in Herat during his visit to this province.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13.33px; text-align:justify\">President Ghani vowed to take practical steps to curb corruption in this agency; however, still much has to be done.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13.33px; text-align:justify\">ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n<\/style>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials in Herat said that the customs\u2019 revenue of Herat has increased by 18% since last year. According to the officials, the fight against corruption and the prevention of smuggled goods are among the reasons for the increase in the revenue. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-77170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}