System description
 

ZEFIR 2 Financial Accounting, Clearing and Settlement System is an integrated IT system for the registration and management of the customs duty and tax receipts as well as the financial flows and transactions taking place between the Polish customs and tax administrations and the European and national budget. The system has been developed and delivered as a component of Poland's e-Customs Initiative under the 7th Axis of Innovative Economy Operational Programme. 

ZEFIR2 is used in all customs offices as well as in tax and fiscal control offices. It is also utilized as the budget planning and reporting tool in the relevant MOF departments.

The system is interconnected and exchanges data with the other components of the e-Customs platform as well as some of the MOF and banking systems: 

• ECIP SEAP portal as a single access point to e-services for traders
• Public Key Infrastructure System for the digital signing of documents
• AIS (Automated Import System) CELINA
• SZPROT Customs, Excise and Tax Decision Processing System
• PDR Reference Database
• OSOZ2 Guarantee Management System
• HERMES2 for the authentication of internal users
• ISZTAR4 for the retrieval of customs tariff information
• ARIADNA Data Warehouse for business analysis and generation of statistics
• ESKS for the registration of fiscal offences and penal fiscal proceedings
• TREZOR3 for the accounting of budgetary revenues and expenditures
• National Bank of Poland
• BGK Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego (which supports government-financed schemes)

What does it do and who is it for ?

ZEFIR2 has been designed as a centralized architecture system for the financial and accounting management of all the receipts collected by the customs and tax administration and is used in all customs locations in Poland. It also support fully automated revenue analysis and reporting functions. From the state budget perspective ZEFIR2 fulfils a purely fiscal role, however, the system also offers a range of benefits for traders, which means that B-to-A transactions (e-services) are more friendly and convenient.

ZEFIR2 allows the traders to

• complete a full scope of formalities related to customs, excise and tax obligations
• keep a record of all customs duties, excise charges and tax payments due to be collected by the customs
• fill in and submit electronically excise, gambling tax and mining tax declarations in electronic format
• make payments to a single designated bank account 
• retrieve on-line the information on the payment arrears and the payment settlements.

ZEFIR 2 also enables

• a faster release in the OSOZ2 system of the guarantees provided by traders to secure the goods placed under customs procedures
• automatic clearing and settlement of all payments made by traders.