TPD2110 - General Principles: Control objectives and potential risk areas: Storage

Storage

Control Objective:

To ensure that all products:-

  • declared on the Production Account; or
  • received from elsewhere without payment of duty; or
  • returned on credit or for repayment of duty, are properly recorded in the stock account of the registered store

Potential risk area:

  • Standard of trader’s physical stock-taking
  • Standard of the trader’s stock record
  • Stock deficiencies
  • Stock surpluses (may indicate undeclared production, diverted exports, transfers etc)