MOOWR disadvantages and exit.
MOOWR is powerful, but it is not free of obligations. An honest view of the trade-offs is the best basis for a decision.
What you take on with MOOWR.
MOOWR brings a compliance burden. Running a bonded warehouse means maintaining prescribed records, filing monthly returns and keeping the operation audit-ready at all times. Done poorly, this can erode the benefit.
Duty is deferred, not eliminated, on goods sold in the domestic market. When those goods are cleared for home consumption, the customs duty becomes payable. The benefit is strongest where a meaningful share of output is exported.
A triple-duty bond and security must be executed and maintained, and there is a defined process to exit the scheme, which needs to be handled cleanly.
How specialists de-risk it.
Returns and records run by people who do only this.
You know upfront what is deferred versus saved.
The bond and security structured and maintained correctly.
If you leave the scheme, the exit is handled in order.
