The General Customs Directorate (DGA) Eduardo Sanz Lovatón reported that as of December 31, 2022, the revenues it has collected amount to RD $230,922.67 million, making this the first time in the institution’s history that it exceeds the 200 billion threshold.
The year 2022 has overtaken 2021 and has become the year with the highest collection (a total of RD $191,990.57 million was collected in the latter). The revenues collected to date exceed 60% of what was collected in 2019, indicating that RD $86,695.98 million additional has been generated compared to that year.
An accumulated growth of DGA revenues of 20.28%, equivalent to a year-end of RD $38,941.60 million with respect to what was collected in 2021, representing 3.7% of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Revenues have experienced growth due to efficient resource management, through the implementation of initiatives and projects; the new measures to facilitate trade, close monitoring of processes in the collecting administrations, and the confidence of trade actors in our management and the healthy performance of the Dominican economy.
Regarding the 2022 target (RD $197,355.00 million), assigned to the institution by the Ministry of Finance, the DGA has fulfilled and exceeded it by more than RD $33,500 million, showing a fulfillment of 117%.
In line with the vision of the Government presided over by Luis Abinader, the DGA reaffirms its commitment to the country in the execution of its tasks as a facilitator of trade, devising new initiatives every day to energize foreign trade and improve the country’s logistical competitiveness; without neglecting its role as a collecting agency, to continue to streamline the processes and operations inherent to its functions, which today make it the source of a quarter of the revenues required by the country to execute the General State Budget.
