Customs and tax payments via payment card

Dear participants of foreign economic activity!

If your activity relates to regular customs clearance of cargoes, you can save your time and money by paying taxes and custom duties with Visa and MasterCard payment cards of any bank through BTA terminals installed in customs stations of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Having made payment via BTA Bank card, you will be able to proceed to cargo execution at once on the basis of check given by payment terminal.

What are the advantages of making customs and tax payments via card?

1. The main advantage is that the card enables to make payment right at a customs post, which fact saves time significantly which is usually spent on customs registration. Having executed payment via payment card, you will be able to proceed to cargo execution on the basis of check given by payment terminal.
2. Cash savings: when time for customs procedures reduces, terms of lease of temporary storage warehouses and transport reduce as well, which fact is being especially important for perishable production.
3. Safety – there’s no need to have cash to pay for customs registration.

Terms of maintenance of payment cards for making customs operations

Tariffs for execution of customs and tax payments via cards

For making customs payment via payment card, commission fee is established in accordance with the following table:

Note:

Commission fee shall be collected from every type of payment (VAT, customs duty, excise tax, etc.) for a certain amount in accordance with payment amount’s falling under respective diapason in the first column of the table. General commission fee of the bank for payment for customs registration of cargo shall be equal to the amount of commission fees for certain types of payments (see example).

Example of calculating the amount of commission fee

Customs registration of cargo is 600 th. tenge. In such a case bank’s fee for executed payment shall be 1 512.50 tenge

Calculation:

Customs registration cost is 600 th. tenge, which consists, for example, of the following payments:

1. VAT - 490 th. tenge. Commission fee of the bank is 735 tenge (4th diapason: 490 th. tenge * 0.15% = 735 tenge).
2. Customs payment is 85 th. tenge. Commission fee of the bank is 552.5 tenge (3rd diapason: 85 th. tenge * 0.65% = 552.5 tenge).
3. Excise tax – 25 th. tenge. Commission fee of the bank is 225 tenge (2nd diapason: 25 th. tenge * 0.9% = 225 tenge).

Total aggregate commission fee of the bank will amount: 735 + 552.5 + 225 = 1 512.50 tenge

Documents necessary to open a payment card

For natural persons:

• Identification card or passport (with IIN)

For legal entities – see list of documents here.

Addresses of Customs Points where it is possible to execute customs payments via card within the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan:

How to open a card?

Please file an application to the bank to open a payment card by any of the following methods:

• please kindly fill in the application to issue a card received from the agent or in any branch of the bank;
• submit an application for opening a card to the Call Center, at 2-500-111, 2-500-222 (in Almaty), 8-8000-800-111 (toll-free number around Kazakhstan), 7111 (free-of-charge for subscribers of all Kazakhstan mobile operators) or execute an electronic application at BTA24 https://bta24.kz/ContactCentre/contactcentre.aspx.
• please kindly provide necessary documents.