Vanuatu Daily Post, 03 July 2019 – Vanuatu has set another record by being the first ever Pacific Island country to implement the Online Payment facility between a Commercial Bank and its Customs system.
Just over a year ago, BRED Bank Management approached Vanuatu’s Department of Customs and Inland Revenue (DCIR) to consider using its e-Commerce platform. Despite e-payments not being a top priority for Customs at the time, Customs saw the opportunity to take on this invitation and make it work for the sake of trade facilitation in Vanuatu.
It took the Technicians of Customs, BRED and Engineering Business Service Limited (EBS) over a year to work on this initiative to ensure it was well implemented and well tested.…read more
