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GLTC wins Crown’s global dealer
of the year award
GOSCOR LIFT Truck Company (GLTC), the
sole distributor of Crown forklifts in southern
Africa, has won the Summit Award, an accolade
bestowed to Crown’s best global dealer of the
year. Crown – one of the world’s largest material
handling equipment manufacturers – recognises
the outstanding performance and commitment
to customer service by its top company-owned
branches and independent dealers in the EMEA
region. In essence, this means that the South
African materials handling equipment specialist is
Crown’s top dealer for 2018 globally.
“Receiving the Summit Award fi lls us with
Further postponement of new DPS
IN COMMUNICATION addressed to external
stakeholders in November last year, the South
African Revenue Service (SARS) confi rmed
that it had identifi ed three main focus areas in
the implementation of the New Customs Acts
Programme, which included the Declaration
Processing System (DPS).
By defi nition, the new DPS is set to improve the
current SARS system of processing import and
export declarations. SARS indicated that certain
amendments to the rules of the Customs and
Excise Act, 1964 (the Act) were being considered
to support implementation of the new DPS.
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pride and excitement here at GLTC. It is one of the
big achievements in our lives,” says Darryl Shafto,
MD of GLTC.
Major considerations of the award are wide-
ranging and include unit sales versus budget, part
sales versus budget, number of technicians trained
during the year under consideration, marketing
spend and branding, among others. Speaking
of what GLTC has done diff erently to be at the
summit of Crown’s dealership globally, Shafto
says the DP Training Centre and the amount of
technicians trained, as well as its sales-beating
budget, were major diff erentiators for GLTC. •
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In essence, the fi rst step of implementing the
DPS envisages introducing requirements rolling out
a two-pronged procedure to making declarations
to SARS, that is, (i) the processing of an incomplete
or provisional clearance declaration, (ii) completing
the incomplete or provisional clearance declaration
by submitting a supplementary declaration within
a prescribed time limit. This two-step declaration
procedure is what is envisaged by the new customs
legislation that will replace the current Act.
The incomplete or provisional entry accompanied
by the supplementary entries will constitute a single
indivisible bill of entry under the Act.
The proposed changes to be implemented under
the DPS are said to be aligned with the revised
Kyoto Convention and are expected to reduce the
large volumes of amendment clearances currently
being submitted (Vouchers of Correction).
Release of the DPS was initially earmarked for
December 2018, then postponed to mid-2019. As
of 19 June 2019, SARS has released communication
that implementation of these changes under the
DPS is postponed as SARS is working on ensuring
that the new declaration types are successfully
fi nalised. There is no indication of when this will be
implemented, but it is advisable that stakeholders
keep a close eye on any publications posted on the
SARS website. •
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