Annual report & statement of accounts
ANNUAL REPORT & STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS
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| ANNUAL REPORT & STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS 64 (11,848) results from scanning operations were recorded on Form C while sixty-five (65) containers were referred to the Drug Examination Unit (DEU) and Goods Examination Unit (GEU) for further examination. Staff attached to the Goods Examination Section carried out examinations on both incoming and outgoing consignments. The incoming consignments which were examined included two thousand, nine hundred and thirty-eight (2,938) containers of various sizes and a combined total of sixty-one thousand, nine hundred and eighty-two (61,982) skids, pallets, boxes, barrels, and crates. The verification of a total of eleven thousand, three hundred and ninety-eight (11,398) vehicles, inclusive of three thousand, seven hundred and twenty-seven (3,727) motorcycles, two thousand, three hundred and ninety-three (2,393) industrial and other types of vehicles and five thousand, two hundred and seventy-eight (5,278) cars were completed. Outgoing consignments that were examined or verified comprised fifty thousand and thirty-five (50,035) containers of various sizes, a combined total of forty-one thousand and twenty-two (41,022) skids, pallets, boxes, barrels and crates and twenty-three (23) trucks. The examination of cargo for bulk loading on vessels occurred on two hundred and two (202) occasions. R: A DMINISTRATIVE S ERVICES The Administrative Services Unit was established consequent to the centralization of the Georgetown Offices of the Authority. Services provided include the maintenance of a central filing room, a mail room, provision of switchboard, receptionist and janitorial services and the operation of scanning and copy centers on each floor. During the period ending December 31, 2014, staff attached to the Unit prepared and posted a total of two hundred and one thousand, seven hundred and fourteen (201,714) pieces of mail inclusive of TIN certificates, VAT returns, lodgment receipts, Notices of Assessment, Demand Notices, Objection Notices as well as notices for Motor Vehicle Licences and those from the Central Data Processing Unit. A total of thirty-three thousand, seven hundred and fifty-three (33,753) pieces of incoming mail were uplifted from the Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) while thirty-four thousand and seventy-six (34,076) were received directly from taxpayers, inclusive of eighteen thousand, one hundred and thirty- seven (18,137) applications for tax exemption. Twenty-three thousand and ninety-seven (23,097) pieces of mail were distributed by staff of the Unit on behalf of other Divisions/Units to both internal and external parties. Staff manning the Receptionist’s Area provided assistance to taxpayers as needed and in the process distributed a combined total of two hundred thousand, four hundred and ninety-nine (200,499) forms including those for TIN, drivers and motor vehicle licences, motor vehicle registration and testimony forms. Further, the telephone operators received and routed a total of forty-nine thousand, and forty |