Customs Field Guidelines: Balancing Business Facilitation and Tax Evasion Investigations with Oversight and Efficiency.

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....These guidelines instruct customs field formations on maintaining a balance between ease of doing business and investigating tax evasion cases related to import or export. Key points include: Commissioners must approve all investigations, which should conclude within one year. Thorough analysis using available data, technical literature, industry practices, and legal frameworks should precede investigations. Open-source information and existing investigations should be cross-checked. Commissioners may involve DRI for cross-jurisdictional relevance. Principles of ease of doing business like preferring written requests, reasonable timelines, relevance of information sought, prior approval for summons content, considering difficulties faced by.........