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Norwegian Customs and Excise - StatRes

Norwegian Customs and Excise is divided into a central directorate and six local customs regions. The responsibilities of the agency are to prevent illegal importation and exportation of goods and to ensure that customs duties are correctly declared, assessed and paid in timely fashion.

Input

In StatRes, input is measured in NOK and man-years. Own production (NOK) is based on accounting data, and is the sum of compensation of employees and use of goods and services. Man-years is full-time jobs and part-time jobs calculated as full-time equivalents adjusted for doctor-certified sickness absence and maternity leave.

2008 2009 2010
Own production (mill. NOK) 1 272 1 346 1 414
Compensation of employees in percentage of own production 66,4 66,5 66,8
Use of goods and services in percentage of own production 33,6 33,5 33,2
Contracted man-years adjusted for long term leaves 1 643 1 668 1 704

Activities and services

Norwegian Customs and Excise carries out border inspections and economis audits. Data regarding border inspections are dispalyed in the panel below. Indicators related to economic audits can be found in the Statbank.

2008 2009 2010
Number of border inspections1 145 564 187 645 206 482
Hits in percentage of inspections 12,9 11,3 11,6
1From 2009 the number of border inspections also includes inspections of goods in stock and by mail- and courier shipments. Figures for 2009 updated 29.8.2011
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Outcomes

There are several output indicators for Norwegian Customs and Excise. Seizures of selected goods are displayed in the panel below. More data can be found in the Statbank.

2008 2009 2010
Amphetamine (gram) 274 626 246 382 123 268
Cannabis (gram) 342 750 1 565 990 449 039
Heroin (gram) 51 854 96 455 83 000
Cocaine (gram) 63 064 57 635 74 404
Khat (kg) 8 841 7 718 10 743
Narcotic tablets (stk) 155 077 457 394 725 413

The amount of taxes collected by Norwegian Customs and Excise are displayed in the panel below. The taxes are divided into four groups: customs duties, value-added tax on importation, motor vehicle taxes and other taxes.

2008 2009 2010
Collected amount (mill. NOK) 196 068,9 179 913,3 191 846,2
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