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GGD-95-190R 1 (1995-09-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackyp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: United States G AO) General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 General Government Division B-260121 September 28, 1995 The Honorable Philip M. Crane Chairman, Subcommittee on Trade Committee on Ways and Means House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: This letter responds to the Subcommittee's request for information on the U.S. Customs Service's costs to provide inspectional services and on financing methods for other agencies' inspectional services. As agreed with the Subcommittee, we addressed the following questions: -- What user fees have been implemented at selected federal agencies? Is it feasible to develop a model to project whether it would be less costly to hire additional full-time inspectors to perform services currently provided by inspectors working overtime? -- Has Customs developed cost estimates for providing those inspectional services for which it charges user fees? USER FEES Customs assesses user fees for certain inspectional services. The two categories of Customs user fees are (1) those established by the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) and (2) the commerce-related merchandise processing fee (MPF) that was established by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986. These two fee categories are defined by the Congressional Budget Office as regulatory fees.' We issued a fact sheet on these two user fees in June 'Regulatory fees include charges for such services as inspections, which may benefit the fee payer, lessen the fee payer's imposition of costs or risks on others or on society as a whole, or both.

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