People’s Bank facilitates online payments for SL Customs
People’s Bank recently entered into a strategic partnership agreement
with Sri Lanka Customs to make customs duty or tax payments more
convenient for importers, through the introduction of an online payment
gateway.
Due to this partnership People’s Bank customers can now make Custom’s
duty / tax payments for their imports via the People’s Bank website,
thereby eliminating a tedious procedure that importers have to undergo
to clear their goods.
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Chief Executive Officer/General Manager People’s Bank, N.
Vasantha Kumar &
Director General of Sri Lanka Customs Jagath P. Wijeweera
exchanging the MoU |
The launch of this new service also means that importers can make
transactions at any time of the day, irrespective of banking hours
adding far greater convenience and ease to importers. The Custom’s
department will process the transaction as soon as the payment is
updated on their system.
Speaking about the launch of this new service the CEO/General Manager
of People’s Bank N. Vasantha Kumar said, “People’s Bank has always
prided itself on being in the forefront of servicing the Nation’s
various financial needs and to reach out to as many people as possible
so that we can make banking an accessible service to the greater
majority of this country.
Thanks to fruitful and innovative partnerships such as this that we
are able to achieve this goal and we truly believe that this partnership
will add value and offer far greater convenience to importers.”
Director General of Sri Lanka Customs Jagath P. Wijeweera said,
“Customs is currently working on expanding their service and offering
all importers a service with high quality and better standards which
importers would be able to benefit from in the near future. With the
newly introduced online duty/tax payment scheme via People’s Bank, the
accounting process, data entering and monitoring transactions will be
extremely convenient thereby vastly improving the productivity of the
staff.”
“For the past several years we have been carrying out the payment
process manually and have faced many issues such as many middleman
transactions taking place and the organization losing money as well as
importers being played out.
I believe with the introduction of the new system we would be able to
maintain transparency,” he added. |