At a recent meeting with Revenue, officials confirmed that agents should have access to Customs and Excise (C&E) weekly printouts for imports through ROS in Quarter 3 of 2022. Traders already have access to these reports. We will keep readers updated.

On 20 June 2022, the TSS launched a new Assisted Completion Service which provides additional support for traders submitting Supplementary Declarations using the TSS Portal. It is specifically for goods’ movements from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, either directly or via Ireland. When using the Assisted Completion Service, a TSS agent will complete up to 5 Supplementary Declarations per month on behalf of traders and it is hoped that this will ease any technical difficulties or teething issues when dealing with unfamiliar customs terms and procedures or the TSS declaration process. The Assisted Completion service is available to all traders using TSS and traders can take advantage of the service to support with the completion of up to 5 Supplementary Declarations per month. However Supplementary Declarations with a Tax Point Date over 330 days old are not supported and Supplementary Declarations made using an agent or intermediary are excluded. To use the service, traders should ask for assisted completion of one of their Supplementary Declarations directly on the TSS Portal or by phoning the TSS Contact Centre. Further information can be found here.

From 19 June 2022, the deadline for the submission of Supplementary Declarations changed to 9pm on the fourth working day of the month following the goods movement. This is three hours earlier than the previous deadline of midnight on the same day. The new deadline will enable the Trader Support Service (TSS) to automatically create the Final Supplementary Declaration report on behalf of traders, helping to fulfil all customs declaration requirements set out by HMRC. Any Supplementary Declarations submitted after the 9pm deadline will be reported as late on the Final Supplementary Declaration report submitted to HMRC for that month. A banner will appear each month on the TSS Portal as a reminder of the new deadline. All guidance on NICTA has been updated to highlight the new submission time. More information can be found in the latest Trader Support Service Bulletin.