Customs Automation: Duties and Other Collections Vulnerable to Fraud and Abuse

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Abstract:

Customs could be losing millions of dollars in duties and other collection due to fraud and abuse because of an almost total breakdown of internal controls over its pre-numbered collection documents. Although the total is unknown. Customs estimates that several million collection documents could not accounted for following nationwide inventories conducted in fiscal years 1987 and 1988

Author(s):
No Author(s) Identified
Author Organization(s):
GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY DIV
Supplementary Note:
Report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Oversight, Committee on Ways and Means.
Pagination:
0019

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Distribution:
Approved For Public Release, Document Partially Illegible
Distribution Statement:
Approved For Public Release; Distribution Is Unlimited. Document Partially Illegible.

RECORD

Collection: TR
Identifying Numbers
Report Number(s):
GAO/IMTEC-90-29
Monitor Series:
GAO
 Subject Terms
Joint Capability Areas:
JCA_5_Command and Control; JCA_5.3_Planning; JCA_5.6.3_Assess Achievement of Objectives; JCA_5.6_Monitor; JCA_1.2.5_Lessons Learned; JCA_5.3.2_Apply Situational Understanding; JCA_5.3.3_Develop Strategy; JCA_5.3.4_Develop Courses of Action; JCA_5.3.5_Analyze Courses of Action; JCA_6.1_Information Transport; JCA_6_Net Centric; JCA_4.3_Maintain
Communities of Interest:
Ground and Sea Platforms
Descriptor(s):
*FEDERAL LAW, *CRIMES, *CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS, FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, AUDITING
Field(s)/Group(s):
Sociology and Law
Keyword(s):
*FRAUD
Report Date:
1990 Feb 01