99-30820. Annual User Fee for Customs Broker Permit; General Notice

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 228 (Monday, November 29, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66692-66693]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-30820]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Customs Service
[T. D. 99-86]


Annual User Fee for Customs Broker Permit; General Notice

AGENCY: Customs Service, Department of the Treasury.

ACTION: Notice of due date for broker user fee.

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SUMMARY: This is to advise Customs brokers that the annual fee of $125 
that is assessed for each permit held by an individual, partnership, 
association or corporate broker is due by January 3, 2000. This 
announcement is being published to comply with the Tax Reform Act of 
1986.

DATES: Due date for fee: January 3, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Adline Tatum, Broker Management, (202) 
927-0380.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 13031 of the Consolidated Omnibus 
Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (Pub.L. 99-272) established that an 
annual user fee of $125 is to be assessed for each Customs broker 
permit held by an individual, partnership, association, or corporation. 
This fee is set forth in the Customs Regulations in Sec. 111.96 (19 CFR 
111.96).
    Customs Regulations provide that this fee is payable for each 
calendar year in each location where the broker was issued a permit to 
do business by the due date which will be published in the Federal 
Register annually.
    Section 1893 of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 (Pub.L. 99-514), 
provides that notice of the date on which a payment

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is due of the user fee for each broker permit shall be published by the 
Secretary of the Treasury in the Federal Register no later than 60 days 
before such due date. This document notifies brokers that for 2000, the 
due date for payment of the user fee is January 3, 2000. It is expected 
that annual user fees for brokers for subsequent years will be due on 
or about the third of January of each year.

    Dated: November 22, 1999.
Raymond W. Kelly,
Commissioner.
[FR Doc. 99-30820 Filed 11-26-99; 8:45 am]
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